Selecting Document Numbering Options
Purchase Orders can automatically assign document numbers to each purchase order, requisition, receipt, and return document you add, or you can type your own document numbers as you enter the transactions. (When entering invoices, credit notes, and debit notes, you use the document numbers assigned by your vendors.)
To automatically assign the consecutive, unique document numbers you need to requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, and returns, specify the numbers to use on the Document tab of the P/O Options form. You can probably continue using the numbering scheme from your old purchase order system.
When you first activate your Purchase Orders system, the program provides default document number lengths, prefixes, and numbers.
You can change all of the default information, setting a different length, prefix, and next number for each type of document.
For more information, choose from the following topics:
Changing the next document number
Entering your own document numbers with transactions
Number of characters in document numbers
Using default document numbers
Using Purchase Orders document numbers in Inventory Control and Accounts Payable
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