More companies are using procurement cards as a way of controlling purchases. When goods are paid for using a procurement card, the company that issued the card requires detailed information on the transaction for authorization and settlement, such as:

• What was purchased?
• Has the product or product group been cleared for purchase?
• What is the product description?
• Is there a purchase order or budget number?

• You can specify whether there can only be one card per sales order. This is designed for tax restrictions often associated with procurement cards.
• You specify whether additional data is to be copied to Financial Accounting (FI) for authorization and settlement. The system then retrieves item details from the relevant tables and forwards it to the clearing house.
• You assign card types and number ranges to procurement cards. For example, all Visa cards that begin with "492" are procurement cards. The system uses this information to automatically determine whether a card entered in the sales order is a procurement card. It then processes the card accordingly.