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Expediting purchase order/req

  • 30 June 2023
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Hello Community - We are on IFS10.  We are looking for a process to identify and track purchase reqs or purchase orders that need to be expedited and treated with priority.  Does anyone have a good solution?

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Hi @Dsquared This can be done in multiple ways, one method would be to use ‘Purchase Code’ to Categorize your Purchase Orders/Requsition Lines.

According to the Tool tip help, a Purchase Code can be assigned to a Purchase Order or Requisition Line and can be used to separate different types of purchases from each other. This is a Searchable field in Purchase Order & Purchase Orders screens and Purchase Requisition Lines screens, so users may filter our their Priority List and process them as appropriate,

However, there is no standard Field available to categorize your Purchase Requisitions (In the Header Level). You can try using ‘Order Code’ field, but the values are system defined (See Tool tip help for ‘Order Code’ field for more details) and it directly affects the behavior of Purchase Requisition, so needs to b handled with care I must say.

However, if you wish to have a ‘Common’ filed’ to categorize both your Purchase Orders and Requisitions, you may define a new ‘Persistent Custom’ field of type ‘Enumerated’ (I’m using the name ‘Purchase Code’ but you may use a name of your choice/ one that best suits your Business requirement) against Purchase Requisition Header. When doing so, you can add the same values you use with Purchase Order, ‘Purchase Code’ (Through a Custom Enumeration) and thereby categorize your Purchase Requisitions in the same way you did for Purchase Orders/Requsition Lines,

 

Hope this helps. Feel free to let us know if you need further help/assistance with this

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