The topics in this section provide information about setting up and maintaining purchasing.
Accounts payable setup overview
About setting up accounts payable parameters
Set up accounts payable parameters
Set up automatic update of purchase order lines
Footer text for purchase orders and purchasing documents
Configuring miscellaneous charges for purchasing
Supplementary items for purchase orders
Configuring business forms for purchasing
Setting up and maintaining request for quotes
Purchasing setup and maintenance forms
The following table lists the forms that support setting up and maintaining purchasing. The table entries are organized by task and then alphabetically by form name.
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Some forms in the following table require information or parameter settings to navigate to them. |
For more information about setup and maintenance tasks, see the System and Application Setup Help.
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Form name |
Usage |
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Setting up purchasing parameters |
Accounts payable parameters |
Set up parameters for Accounts payable, including purchasing. |
Configuring miscellaneous charges for purchasing |
Auto-misc. charges |
Define the miscellaneous purchase charges that are automatically assigned to orders. |
Item |
Assign miscellaneous charges groups to items. |
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Item misc. charges groups |
Create miscellaneous charges groups that can be assigned to items. |
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Misc. charges code |
Set up codes for the miscellaneous charges to use on purchase orders, such as invoice fees, freight, and insurance. |
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Purchase orders |
Assign miscellaneous charges groups to purchase orders. |
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Vendor misc. charges group |
Create miscellaneous charges groups that can be assigned to vendors. |
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Vendors |
Assign miscellaneous charges groups to vendors. |
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Supplementary items for purchase orders |
Supplementary item groups - Inventory |
Create and maintain supplementary item groups that will be used for items, vendors, and customers. |
Supplementary item groups - Vendor |
Create and maintain supplementary item groups that will be used for items and vendors. |
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Configuring business forms for purchasing |
Footer text |
Specify footer text for a print management record in multiple languages. When the document is printed, the language of the document determines the language of the footer text. |
Form notes |
Edit the standard text that appears on the various forms that your organization uses, such as invoices, purchase orders, and interest notes. |
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Form setup |
Define the format of information on various documents related to vendors, such as purchase orders, receipt lists, packing slips, invoices, requests for quotes, and purchase requisitions. |
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Form sorting parameters |
Set up sorting orders for printing purchase requisitions, receipt lists, packing slips, and invoices. |
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Print management setup |
Set up print management original or copy records and conditional settings. This information controls the way that documents, such as sales orders and purchase orders, are printed during the posting process. |
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Setting up and maintaining request for quotes |
Accounts payable parameters |
Set up parameters for Accounts payable, including requests for quotes. |
Configure request for quote reply |
Specify the information that you want to receive from vendors when they reply to requests for quotes. |
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Form setup |
Define the format of information on various documents related to vendors, such as purchase orders, receipt lists, packing slips, invoices, requests for quotes, and purchase requisitions. |
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Master plans |
Create and manage master plans. For each plan, you can set parameters that define how Microsoft Dynamics AX calculates the master scheduling. |
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Reason codes |
Define reason codes for use when accepting and rejecting request for quote replies. |
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Setting up and maintaining purchase requisitions |
Accounts payable parameters |
Set up parameters for Accounts payable, including purchase requisitions. |
Employee |
Set up and maintain data for all employees. |
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Inventory dimensions |
Create an inventory dimension group used for category items. |
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Inventory model groups |
Create and maintain inventory model groups used for category items. |
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Item |
Create category items, which are placeholders for non-catalog items. |
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Item groups |
Create an item group used for category items. |
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Limits |
Specify a limit amount for each employee. For example, you may want a specific employee to be able to approve purchase requisitions up to 100 and another employee with a limit of 10,000. |
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Product groups |
Create and manage a hierarchical product group structure by using an appropriate number of levels. |
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Purchase requisition approval |
Create a workflow based on the Purchase requisition approvaltemplate. |
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User group permissions |
Set user group permissions. |
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User groups |
Create users groups so you can establish who can access Microsoft Dynamics AX and what permissions those users have when working in Microsoft Dynamics AX. |
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Workflow configuration |
Create a new workflow or modify an existing one. |
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Workflow: Workflow Name |
Configure a workflow and its elements. |
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Setting up an intercompany organization |
Create item in company |
Create a duplicate item record in another company for use in intercompany processing. |
Customers |
Define customers as intercompany customers. |
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Endpoints |
Configure endpoints for data transfer. For inbound transfers, the endpoint is the source; for outbound transfers, the endpoint is the destination. For example, trading partners are endpoints. |
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Intercompany action policies |
Set up the parameters that are used for intercompany sales or purchase orders. |
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Item |
Define the items that can be purchased from an intercompany vendor. |
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Print management setup |
Set up printer specifications for original purchase documents and duplicate copies for different departments. |
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Value mapping |
Map the values used for the active action policy and for the particular endpoint, such as item number, customer account number, vendor account number, and terms of delivery. |
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Vendors |
Define vendors as intercompany vendors. |