ERP - Purchase department MM

12 important questions on ERP - Purchase department MM

When do we need the purchase department?

When a sales order is made and the products are not available anymore in stock. The purchase department serves for buying new raw materials to produce new products.

What are the steps of the purchase process?

Selection phase:
- Purchase requisition
- Vendor or supplier selection

Transaction phase:
- Purchase order
- Notify vendor
- Vendor shipment
- Goods receipt
- Invoice receipt
- Payment to vendor

What is a purchase requisition?

An internal document instructing the purchasing department to request a specific good for a specified time.

Can be manually or automatic.

Manually: A person creating determines what, how much and when. (MRO)  E.g. The system can't keep track of a new office chair that is needed for a specific person so this needs to be entered in the system manually.

Automatic: MRP, Production orders,... E.g. All the raw materials to produce a bike
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How can the purchasing dep find an appropriate source of supply?

- Internal sourcing requirements: The need of goods could be satisfied by sources within the company ( plant within your firm)

- A source list: a record that specifies the allowed means for procuring a material for a certain plant within a given time period.

- Outline agreement: Longer-term purchasing agreement such as a contract or scheduling contracts (water, phone)

What is a purchase order and a purchase order output?

A formal request to a vendor for a specific material or service under the stated conditions. Can be created manually or automatically.

Once a purchase order has been created the vendor needs to be notified. (Printed, e-mail, fax,..)

What is the goods receipt and what is happening?

The goods movement in which we accept goods in our system. (Somebody is scanning the goods at the entrance gate).

Check if the right products have been delivered or not (material movement code)

When scanning a product, it will update the inventory, p&l G/L account.

What are the effects of a goods receipt?

- Material document is created
- Accounting document is created
- Stock quantities are updated
- Stock values are updated
- Purchase order is updated
- Output can be generated (GR slip)

What is a consignment stock?

A stock that is only becoming your property as soon as you start using it. It is the stock of which suppliers are responsible to keep it in your warehouse but are responsible of keeping track how many they are.

It will only be booked when you start using it.

Explain the 3-way match of the purcashing process:

The purchase order, goods receipt and invoice need to match otherwise a warning or error message will be sent and we will not pay our purchase.

Which product categories are a manual purchase requis and which ones are automatically?

- Raw materials and excipients & consumables are automatically.

- Personnel, investments, services and diverse goods and services are done manually.

Which master data needs to be entered in the ERP in the purchasing process?

- Vendor master data
- Material master data
- Purchasing info record
- Condition master data
- Output master data

For what do we use a purchase information record?

This contains the relationship between the vendor and a material. Some products will be automatically bought from a specific supplier. (preferred supplier)

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