Overview
The scenario covers the processes of purchasing goods that are not normally used in manufacturing as materials or in sales as trading goods but stored to use them later for general and supporting activities. Numerous consumable goods are purchased and not immediately transferred to the consuming unit but put away into a warehouse and consumed over a period of time. The cost of goods may include purchasing costs as well as procurement costs, such as custom fees, transportation, storage services, and other. The goods are normally consumed as an indirect expense, charged to the expense item and dimension: a business unit, a cost center, a line of business, and other. This scenario can be applied for purchases of office supplies, IT equipment (if not an asset), or for maintenance materials and spare parts.
Purchase indirect materials stored in warehouses flowchart
Links to User Guide
- Maintain inventory replenishment parameters
- Generate demand-driven purchase orders for replenishment
- Generate plan-based purchase orders
- Generate demand-driven purchase orders
- Define delivery terms
- Specify terms for purchase orders and submit them for approval
- Confirm purchase order and send to vendor
- Follow-up purchase order progress
- Process incoming delivery notification of purchase order
- Process vendor invoices by purchase orders
Links to Setup Guide
- Items
- Distribution warehouse structure
- Basic warehouse operations
- Transport delivery
- Basic purchase operations
- Material supply
- VAT accounting