Purchase orders are documents you create in the pos system on a backoffice workstation or PDA device. This is when you sit down and write up an order from your vendor. When you're finished with the purchase order, you print it out or email it to the vendor to create your order with them. Purchase orders are a paid option in the system and not available out of the box. If you do not have this option and would like to use it, contact your sales representative to add it to the software key.
Purchase orders are typically part of a 3 step process. First, you create a purchase order and give it to your vendor. Second, when the order comes in to the back of the store the purchase order becomes a receiving document that you use to check in the items. Third, the receiving document becomes a billing document that is handled by the office and paid for. A DSD Delivery document by contrast is when you do all three of these steps in one document.
Purchase orders are a great way to manage ordering from vendors. When you create a purchase order you're telling the vendor exactly how much you want from them, not them telling you how much they think you need.
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