Purchase Request – Component Overview

Introduction

Purchase Request (PR) component facilitates the generation of a request for purchase one or more items. A PR number identifies each such request. Each request details the requirement as a definite quantity of a set of items; as on a specified need date for a specified Organization Unit.

Feature Highlights

• Provision to stipulate in a PR, the place of receipt and storage of the items requested and the organization unit that would generate the ordering document.

• Provision to incorporate in a PR, the delivery schedules & usage of the item being requested, its quality attributes, relevant budget and asset proposal details, requesting OU and dropship address details.

• Facility to raise a PR in “Express” mode thereby triggering the automatic generation of a Purchase order document on approval of the Purchase Request.

• Provision to access the stock details of a particular item at a warehouse / organization unit level to arrive at a better decision on the quantity of items to be requested.

List of Activities