ERP - Purchase department MM
12 important questions on ERP - Purchase department MM
When do we need the purchase department?
What are the steps of the purchase process?
- 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?
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?
- 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?
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?
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?
- 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?
It will only be booked when you start using it.
Explain the 3-way match of the purcashing process:
Which product categories are a manual purchase requis and which ones 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?
- Material master data
- Purchasing info record
- Condition master data
- Output master data
For what do we use a purchase information record?
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