Purchasing provides the user with a totally automated purchase order control system. It works in conjunction with the Inventory Management and Sales Order applications.

Major features include:

• Automated or manually created purchase orders.

• Optional purchase order historical maintenance.

• Ability to receive partial shipment.

• Vendor master and history.

• Inventory item history.

• Open back orders.

• Open purchase orders.

• Complete tracking of purchase orders.

• Freight adjustment allocations to cost.

• Automatic shipping load calculations.

• Vendor statistics reporting.

• Centralized purchasing.

• Automatic calculation of purchase lead times.

• Automatic calculation of re-order points and EOQ's.