Day-End Processing of Purchase Orders

Note: If you cost inventory during posting instead of during Day End Processing, almost all Day End processing tasks will also take place when you post transactions.

• If you are concerned with transaction processing speed, you should cost inventory transactions during Day End Processing—not during posting. (You change this setting on the Processing tab of the I/C Options form if you are using the Inventory Control module.)

Day End Processing (or posting, if you cost inventory during posting):

• Creates active purchase orders from future purchase orders that have reached their activation dates.

• Updates quantities on purchase order in Inventory Control (that can also be viewed in Order Entry).

• Updates committed quantities in Project and Job Costing for job-related purchase orders.

• If you keep history and statistics, updates purchase order history and updates the number of purchase orders for the year and period in the Purchase Statistics form and on the Purchase Statistics report.

• If you do not keep transaction history, deletes completed purchase orders. (Posting will delete the purchase orders if you cost items during posting).

If you use Sage ERP Accpac Inventory Control with Purchase Orders, you choose the Day End Processing icon from the Periodic Processing folder in Inventory Control.

If you use Purchase Orders as a stand-alone program (without Inventory Control), you choose the Day End Processing icon from the Periodic Processing folder in Purchase Orders.