• alvin
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Topic: Print Purchase Order and View Purchase Order

In Print Purchase Order, when you print the PO the (Item Description) is missing, should be (Item Description) from (Purchase Order Entry) and there needs to be a line between Quantity and Unit.  But (Item Code) shows (Supplier's Code or Description:), and looks good.

In  View Purchase Order, the (Item Description) shows (Supplier's Code or Description:) it should show (Item Description) from (Purchase Order Entry), much easer to identify Items, or the name changed to (Supplier's Code) and a new column added (Item Description)

Alvin

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Re: Print Purchase Order and View Purchase Order

alvin wrote:

In Print Purchase Order, when you print the PO the (Item Description) is missing, should be (Item Description) from (Purchase Order Entry) and there needs to be a line between Quantity and Unit.  But (Item Code) shows (Supplier's Code or Description:), and looks good.

The printed purchase order is meant to be sent to your supplier, so description should be as is. The missing line is part of layout concept - de gustibus non est disputandum wink. You can find another layout with vertical lines in download section.

alvin wrote:

In  View Purchase Order, the (Item Description) shows (Supplier's Code or Description:) it should show (Item Description) from (Purchase Order Entry), much easer to identify Items, or the name changed to (Supplier's Code) and a new column added (Item Description)

Company item codes displayed on the view are known to the company staff using FA, so this should be no problem with identifying the item. Maybe the good compromise here (to have consistent view with printed version) would be to change item codes displayed into links to inventory status like in order entry?

Janusz

  • alvin
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Re: Print Purchase Order and View Purchase Order

Almost always a supplier will have their own item codes, and an item description.  Our Item Name, would be very similar if not the same as supplier description,

Item codes sometimes get complicated and are difficult to read without Item Name showing in lists and reports.

Alvin

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Re: Print Purchase Order and View Purchase Order

alvin wrote:

Almost always a supplier will have their own item codes, and an item description.  Our Item Name, would be very similar if not the same as supplier description,

Item codes sometimes get complicated and are difficult to read without Item Name showing in lists and reports.

Alvin

I agree with Alvin.

The big issue here in South Africa is that the standard of expertise and educational level is very low with most general employees. Some have not even finished high school and only have basic reading & writing skills.

We do not have the best education system in the world so we have to make allowances for that. In the bad old days of apartheid, non-white people did not have access to decent education at all and now with our present government policy of affirmative action (racial quotas), by law we are forced to employ these people, no matter how lacking in skills.

Please do not view this post as political, merely a statement of a distressing fact.

So having the description displayed would assist. Possibly the developers could advise where to add the bit of code and we can then do it ourselves.

/Andre

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Re: Print Purchase Order and View Purchase Order

Hello guys,
You can always put the suppliers discription into this, by entering Items and Inventory tab, Purchase Pricing. If you need the code also please include this first in the description. Then this will be used when printing the PO.

/Joe