Overview

In some scenarios a company may want to allow certain vendors to enter purchase orders on their behalf in order to optimize their procurement users time.In order to do this, vendors will create Purchase Orders with the items that will be shipped. As soon as the PO is created, the system will automatically approve it, so the vendor can view the products under the "Confirm POs" page and follow the regular procedure for confirming PO's.

Instructions

In order to enable the "Purchase Order creation" for vendors. The below must be followed:

1. Go to the Setup>Vendors.
2. Select the "Vendor" and click on "edit" under the "Actions" column.
   
3. Go to the "Options" tab and check the box "Allow create POs", click on "Save".
   
4. Once the vendor has this option activated. The vendor can start creating Purchase Orders. The option will appear under the Purchase Order>Purchase Order Summary> Create New Order button.