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HOW TO PRODUCE A PO
This screen is used to produce purchase orders. You select the vendor and the
items from pick lists and enter the quantities to order. The system produces a
purchase order using the current template. It automatically extends quantities
by unit prices and applies sales tax. After the PO has been produced, the system
takes it into the system editor. From here you can edit the document and print
it out.
The first step in creating a PO is to select the vendor. You can enter the
vendor id in the Vendor field or press the F8 key when the cursor is at the
Vendor field.
Pressing the F8 key will bring up a pick list of available vendors. Use the
UpArrow, DownArrow, PgUp and PgDn keys to move the highlight to the proper
vendor. When the highlight is at the proper vendor, press Enter to select the
vendor. The system will fill in the vendor name and address fields from the
vendor database.
If the vendor that you selected has comments associated with it, these comments
will be displayed in a pop-up window at this point.
If the vendor is new and doesn't exist in the database, assign a vendor id to
the vendor and enter it in the Vendor field. Later, when you press F5 to
produce the PO or Enter to display the total price, you will be given the option
to add this vendor to the database.
Next, fill in the Shipping, C.O.D., Ship Via, FOB, Terms and PO Comment fields
as needed. If an amount field has positions after the decimal point, the decimal
point should be entered as part of the field. For example, $12.59 should be
entered as 12.59.
After the vendor information has been entered, item information needs to be
entered. To select items, position the cursor in one of the quantity (Qty)
fields and press F8.
This will bring up a pick list of major categories of items. Use the UpArrow,
DownArrow, PgUp and PgDn keys to move the highlight to the proper major
category. When the highlight is at the proper major category, press Enter to
select the major category.
After a major category has been selected, a pick list of sub categories for the
major category selected will be displayed. A selection is made from this pick
list in the same manner as selecting a major category.
After a sub category has been selected, a pick list of item descriptions for the
sub category selected will be displayed. You can select the proper items from
this pick list. When the highlight is at a certain item and Enter is pressed, a
checkmark will be displayed indicating that the item has been selected. Pressing
Enter when the highlight is at an item where there is already a checkmark will
cause the checkmark to disappear and the item to be un-selected.
After you have selected all of the proper items from the item pick list, press
Esc to delete the pick list. At this point, the sub category pick list will be
displayed. You can select another sub category or press Esc again. If you press
Esc again, the major category pick list will be displayed and you can select
another major category. Pressing Esc will always take you back to the previous
pick list. When you have finished selecting items, press Esc to delete the major
category pick list. The items that were selected will be displayed in the bottom
half of the screen.
At this point, it's time to enter the quantities. Enter the quantities by
tabbing to the proper quantity field and filling in the quantity. If the
quantity has 1 or more positions after the decimal point, the decimal point
should be entered as part of the field. For example, 12.5 should be entered as
12.5.
If there are more items on the next page, the PgDn=Next label at the bottom of
the screen will be highlighted. If this label is highlighted, pressing the PgDn
key will bring up the next page of items. Similarly, if there are items on a
previous page, the PgUp=Prev label will be highlighed.
If you wish to delete an item from the PO, space out the Stock Number field.
When all the vendor, item and quantity information has been entered, press the
F5 key to produce the PO. To display the total price without producing the PO,
press the Enter key. The system uses the amount in the Cost field on the Item
screen as the unit price of each item. No discounts are applied.
Alternatively, you can enter the quantity in the Qty field and the stock number
in the Stock Number field. When you have filled in all the stock number lines,
pressing the PgDn key will enable you to enter more stock numbers. Pressing the
Enter key will allow you to preview the total price and cause the system to fill
in the Description and Price fields. Pressing the F5 key will create the PO.
When you press the F5 or Enter keys, the system will fill in the Description or
Price fields if they are blank. This means that if you want the system to fill
in a field, it must be blank. For example, if you change the stock number and
the Description and Price fields are filled in, the system will not fill in
these fields. You need to space out these fields first. If you want to change
the Price field to zero, you must enter a zero in this field. Spacing out the
Price field will cause the system to fill in a value. You can override the value
in any field by typing over it. For example, to override the price for an item,
tab to the proper price field and type in the new price.
The system will take the produced PO into the system editor. From here you can
edit and print the document. Please refer to the instructions for the System
Editor on its operation. In the System Editor, form feed characters show up as
uppercase L's in column 1. If you have a color monitor, the form feed characters
show up as white colored L's while the rest of the text is yellow colored. Form
feed characters are used to tell a printer to skip to the top of a new page.
When you return from the System Editor, the system will update the Last Activity
date field on the vendor record for the current vendor. It will also save the
current PO and update the quantity on order for each item on the PO.
Pressing the F3 key will toggle the cursor between the Vendor, the first Qty
and the first Stock No fields. If the cursor is in any of the vendor fields,
pressing the F3 key will advance the cursor to the first Qty field. If the
cursor is in any of the Qty fields, pressing the F3 key will advance the cursor
to the first Stock No field. If the cursor is in any other field, pressing the
F3 key will advance the cursor to the Vendor field.
Pressing the F6 key will display a menu.
Selection A is used to retrieve previously saved PO's. The system will restore
to the screen everything that was on the screen when the PO was saved. It will
also restore the editor file (PODOC.PRT) containing the PO that was produced.
PO's are retrieved by vendor id. Therefore, you must first fill in the Vendor
field. Once a PO has been restored, you can modify the data on the screen and
produce the PO again by pressing F5 or use Selection D to edit and/or printout
the PO as it exists. If you recreate a PO by pressing F5, the system will
automatically update the quantity on order for the items on the PO. The system
will back out the old quantities and replace them with the updated quantities.
A PO which has items that have been fully or partially received can't be
recreated by pressing the F5 key. To change the PO, you must: (1) Use the
Receive PO screen to back out the quantities received (2) Update the PO and
recreate it by pressing the F5 key (3) Use the Receive PO screen to re-enter
the quantities received. The system will automatically change the current
template to the template that was used to create the retrieved PO. This template
will remain in effect until you change it to another template.
Selection B is used to delete PO's that are no longer needed. The system
displays the PO number, the date it was created and the comments associated with
it in a window. When the highlight is at a PO, pressing the Enter key will
select/unselect the PO. Pressing the Esc key will exit you from the window and
delete all the selected PO's.
Selection C allows you to the change the template that is used in producing
PO's. If you change the template, the new template will become the default
template until you change it. The name of the current template is displayed in
the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Selection D allows you to re-edit or print out the last PO that was created by
the system.
When the system returns from the System Editor, the vendor, item and quantity
information is exactly the same as it was before. You can modify the vendor
information and quantities and produce another PO if that is desired. To start
fresh with new information, press the F9 key to clear the screen.
To exit the screen, press Esc.