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Posting proposal - PO´s don´t pair accordingly in posting proposal

  • 11 February 2023
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Hi IFS community,

 

I´m going to give a short overview about the issue which we´re dealing with.

 

Regularly we receive paper pallets, they have inventory numbers within IFS. We create purchase orders for materials which have part numbers, we add lines in ´Part order lines´.

 

When the goods are physically received and counted ,  it is registered in ´Register Purchase Order arrivals´ tab. We write in the total qty received and the number of the delivery note when we are doing it.

 

We do it this way, because it is essential to other departments so that they could download the total ammounts of materials in stock from ´Inventory Part In Stock´, after that they compare it to the actual stock level.

 

Our problem starts here, when we receive the material from the supplier we get an invoice shortly afterwards. We register the invoice in ´Manual supplier Invoice´ tab, we write the number of the PO into ´PO Ref:´ field. This way almost every field gets filled out as it is paired with the PO. We continue into posting proposal tab Every time when the materials were received via ´Register Purchase Order Arrivals´ they get paired with the wrong invoice. There are more invoices similar to the picture below (paper pallets 5-6 invoices but they don´t have a line like on the picture below.) It seems all the arrivals were paired only to this invoice. Is there a way to pair these fields manually to the right invoice?

 

Sorry if I was too detail oriented. Thank you in advance.

 

Kind regards,

Máté

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Best answer by Thomas Peterson 12 February 2023, 02:39

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Hi, 

We have multiple matching options.   It appears you're using the Po Header matching for this supplier. Because this option is set on the supplier (supplier / invoice / matching area) you can have different options per different suppliers. Some can be PO header, others can be receipt reference. 

It would appear that receipt reference may be a better option for this supplier. 

To make this work, the register arrival process should enter some form of reference when the goods come in. That reference should be the same reference that would appear on the invoice.  In US it is fairly common that a packing slip (shipment notation) would be used as the receipt reference then also listed on the invoice. 

As an example, assume a register PO arrival and Pack 1 was entered for all the goods on that shipment. Similarly, the next shipment had pack 2.   When processing the invoice for PO 1 and pack 1, only the goods received on pack 1 would be used for matching - Pack 2 would remain unmatched. 

Best regards, 

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