Future Purchase Orders

Future purchase orders are purchase orders you enter with a future date on which you expect to activate and issue the purchase order.

Day End Processing automatically activates future purchase orders on the purchase-order date (or the first time you run Day End processing after the purchase-order date). Alternatively, you can change the status of a future purchase order to Active before the purchase-order date, or change the activation date.

Day End Processing posts newly activated future purchase orders so that purchasing statistics are updated and items are placed on purchase order in Inventory Control.

Tip: If you usually run Day End Processing at the end of the work day, future purchase orders set to be activated on a certain day will not become active until the end of the day. To be sure a future purchase order is ready to be processed on the correct date, assign a date earlier than the desired date.