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Purpose

Use this process to aggregate requirements on the part of your customers, stores or other warehouses supplied by a distribution center, and generate collective purchase orders. This maps the pull-based merchandise distribution method.

When you create a collective purchase order, you specify how the merchandise should be processed in the distribution center. The same methods are available to you as for pushing merchandise through to recipients using cross-docking, flow-through and putaway.

Collective purchase orders create a link between one procurement document (such as a vendor purchase order) and several issue documents (sales orders and warehouse orders).

Process Flow

  1. You define the distribution centers for which you want to generate collective purchase orders.
  2. You specify selection criteria (processing method, dates, further processing).
  3. You process the potential collective purchase order items (quantity, processing method, supply source).
  4. Further processing

You use a worklist to generate collective purchase orders for each vendor.

You generate the collective purchase orders immediately, i.e. all issue documents displayed in the screen are grouped in the one purchase order.

Alternatively, you enter a collective purchase order item in the worklist for all the items on the screen, and then generate a collective purchase order item from the worklist.

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