Purchase Order (PO) Flow in Sage 500 ERP

By | January 27, 2017

Purchase order (PO) in Sage 500 ERP is a commercial document and first official offer issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services. It is used to control the purchasing of products and services from external suppliers.

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The purchase order has same flow what we flow in actual such as – create the purchase order, make the receipt for received.
Goods, enter a receipt for invoice form vendor, do payment for an invoice by check or EFT.
In sage 500 ERP, a purchase order can either be partially received, fully received or never received.
The Modular Flow for Purchase Order in Sage 500 ERP is:

  • Enter Requisition (Request for Goods)
  • Enter Purchase Order (PO)
  • Process Receipts of Goods
  • Enter Receipt Of Invoice
  • Process Invoice for Payment.

Below is the process flow design of PO.

Purchase order flow

Here we take an example of creating purchase order for product ‘router’ to get better understanding of basic PO flow.

We create a requisition for quotation; navigate to ‘Purchase Order’ → ‘Activities’ → ‘Enter Requisition’. Generate new Requisition no. (0000000021) enter the details required – as Department, warehouse, items to be purchased and its qty., date of request.

Enter requisition

Click on Generate PO button for Purchase Order (0000000221-PO).

Requisition after saving

Open the generate PO in ‘Enter Purchase Order’ window to edit the PO if needed.

Navigation: Purchase Order’ → ‘Activities’ → ‘Enter Purchase Order’

PO Number generation

Now we move to ‘Processing Receipt of Goods’ after receiving goods at warehouse.

Navigation: ‘Purchase Order’ → ‘Activities’ →  ‘Receipt Of Goods’ → ‘Process Receipt of Goods’ (ROG)
In ROG window select the warehouse >> click on Enter Receipt of goods to create receipt against the PO >> Match PO line with receipt by using ‘Matching’ option and then post the receipt.

Process Receipt of GoodsIf the goods received are fine with no damage we go for processing of invoice receipt against the PO.
Navigation:  ‘Purchase Order’ → ‘Activities’ → ‘Process Receipt of Invoice’
Enter the receipt of invoice by creating voucher (0000000416-IN) of type invoice.

Process reciept of invoice

Receipt of Invoice

Now match the PO line and post the batch for processing the payment against an invoice.

AP – Process Invoice for Payment
Navigation: ‘Account Payable’ → ‘Activities’ → ‘Process Invoice For Payment’
As the amount paid to a vendor for goods invoice comes under Account Payable.
Create a batch >> select the payment by clicking on ‘ Select for payment’ and select voucher created earlier.

View selected vouchers/payments

Process invoice for payment

We Print the checks for transactions and post the batch
In purchase order, this is basic flow but there many different ways of creating PO in Sage 500 ERP as – Generating PO from SO, Generating PO from Blanket agreements/order.

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