Generating Purchase Orders Automatically

Purchase Orders may be generated automatically from within the system by designating an amount of product to have left before the order is generated, and an amount to order. These designations are made within the Product editing interface which can be reached by pressing Control Panel>>Products>>Product name to set the generation for>>Settings. On this page you will see the following controls;




The first control is the most important; if it is unselected then a few of the others don’t show up. Select the supplier of the product from the drop down list provided. Once you have selected the supplier the page will post back and the rest of the controls will appear.

• The Location radio button is used to let the system know if you must tell the supplier about every product order or whether or not you deal with the delivery of product orders.
• The handling Fee textbox will contain any costs you may incur to get the product to the warehouse.
• The UPC Code is code used in the industry to identify that product.
• Supplier Cost is how much your supplier is charging you per product and will be the default for future purchase orders.
• Stock on Hand is how many units of products you currently have for sale.
• The Reorder Point is the amount of product you have left before the system automatically generates a purchase order.
• The Restock Level is the number of product units to order when automatically generating a purchase order.
• Unit of measure and pieces per unit are text and numeric fields to allow you to annotate the number of pieces per product unit.