Chemicals: Procurement without QM

In this procurement process a quotation comparison list enables the purchasing employee to select the best source of supply by evaluating quotations from vendors.

A purchase requisition is either generated via the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process, or manually by a requestor. A buyer validates the accuracy of the purchase requisition and converts the purchase requisition into a purchase order. The purchase order is subject to approval based on a predefined amount before being issued to a vendor.

This scenario consists of the following steps:

• Display and assign purchase requisitions
• Convert assigned requisitions to purchase orders or create purchase order manually
• Change purchase order
• Approve purchase order
• Print purchase order
• Receive goods from vendor
• Invoice receipt by line item
• Outgoing payment

• Use of integrative data sets like purchasing info records, source lists, contracts
• Automatic assignment of RFQs to purchase orders
• Processing of role-specific work lists possible