In the traditional sense, purchase orders are formal documents that businesses use to authorise the purchasing of items or services. Purchase orders are raised, and details are captured to indicate what is being purchased, and from which supplier. The purchase order then typically follows an approval cycle, which concludes with the Purchase order being sent to the supplier to fulfil. This provides an auditable and accountable method for controlling what is purchased and a method to verify that what was requested was correctly supplied or delivered.
In terms of Qwix, purchase orders are one of the source documents used for inbound processes. Once a purchase order has reached a point in its life cycle, where it is eligible to be received by the warehouse, it is made available in the Qwix WMS system for further processing.
These processes and related information can be found below.