Enter the buyer responsible for purchasing the goods on the purchase order.

Your entry in this field is validated according to the selection made against the Validate buyer when purchase order created setup option (Purchase Orders Setup).

If set to mandatory or if entered, and you are creating a purchase order from one or more requisition lines (see Requisition Create Purchase Orders) then the buyer defined against the requisition line(s) is automatically entered in this field. If you enter a different buyer code, then the requisition lines are updated with the buyer code you entered.

The default entry at this field is determined by the currency code of the supplier and the local currency code defined within the company options.

The order type can be used for selection purposes within the Purchase Order Print program and the Purchase Orders by Order Number report.

This displays the auto vouchering selection as defined against the supplier in the Supplier Maintenance program, and indicates if the supplier is using auto vouchering or not.

It can be:

An additional hyperlink is available (Resolve GeoLocation from address) to resolve addresses using the long or short name.

This defaults to the current system date, but can be changed.

It can be printed on the purchase order and used for selection purposes within the Purchase Orders by Order Number report.

This defaults to the current system date, but can be changed.

If you are using Commitment Accounting (General Ledger Setup) then commitments are updated when the due date is changed here and applied to all the non stocked lines on the order.

This can be printed on the purchase order and used for selection purposes within the Purchase Orders by Order Number report.

The order due date is also used in the (Requirements Calculation) program.

This defaults to the Default days until memo date preference (Purchase Order Entry).

The memo date can be set to a few days before the order due date, and when running the Purchase Orders by Order Number report, you can check all the orders which are due on a specific date.

If you entered a value at the Default days until memo due field (Purchase Order Entry) then SYSPRO automatically calculates the memo date when you create a purchase order using the default memo code.

It can be printed on the purchase order and used for selection purposes within the Purchase Orders by Order Number report.

In addition, if you enter a value at the Default days until memo due preference field (Purchase Order Entry) then SYSPRO automatically calculates the memo date when you create a purchase order using the default memo code.

For example: For Default memo code A you enter 10 at the Default days until memo due field. When you create a new purchase order using the default memo code, SYSPRO calculates the memo date by adding 10 days to the system date.

Enter the fixed exchange rate to be applied to lines on this order. All foreign prices entered are converted to local currency values using this fixed exchange rate.

These options enable you to enter up to three chained discount or surcharge percentages to apply to the entire purchase order.

For example:

Your order total is 100 and you define chained discount percentages of 10% and 5%. The calculation of discount is performed in the order listed below:

Select this to use the Ship to address defined against the customer (Browse on Customers), as the delivery address for the purchase order.

This option is only enabled if you entered a customer code in the Customer field of the Purchase Order Header pane.

Select this to use the Browse on Multiple Ship to Addresses program to select one of the multiple addresses defined against the customer.

This option is only enabled if you entered a customer code in the Customer field of the Purchase Order Header pane.

Select this to use the delivery address defined against the sales order as the delivery address for the purchase order.

You would typically use this option when creating a purchase order from the Sales Order Entry program for a specific customer and you want delivery to be made to the customer's address defined on the sales order.

This option is only available when the program is called with a sales order number as a parameter. This happens when it is called from PO Creation when adding a purchase order for a sales order.

When you are updating a purchase order, there is no record of the original sales order at purchase order level, as it is on the purchase order line. There could be different orders on different lines, so there is no order passed at this point.

This applies when you have enabled the Restrict order to single warehouse and use for delivery address setup option (Purchase Orders Setup).

Enter the warehouse address for the order.

If the address you enter differs from the warehouse address for the Delivery warehouse, then you are given the option of applying the warehouse address instead.

Enter the delivery name and address to which the goods you are ordering must be delivered.

You cannot edit the delivery address if the Allow maintenance of delivery address setup option (Purchase Orders Setup) is disabled.

An additional hyperlink is available (Resolve GeoLocation from address) to resolve addresses using the long or short name.

	The Incoterms code indicates the portion of costs and risks agreed to by the parties in a contract of purchase or sale. For example, the Delivery term CIP (Carriage and Insurance Paid), indicates that the seller pays the cost of carriage and insurance necessary to bring the goods to a named destination (i.e. Shipping location).

This code is also used when processing a purchase order for a supplier in an EC Member State and ultimately for use on the Supplementary Declaration.

If this field is left blank, then the default delivery terms defined against the company for Arrivals is used (Tax Options).