Preliminary Purchase Orders

Use this option to generate a report showing the effects of converting an awarded bid to a purchase order. The report includes the total charging for each location and vendor. It can be sorted by either location, vendor, or shipping code.

Menu Path:  Vendor Bidding > Reports > Vendor Bidding Reports > Preliminary Purchase Orders

Generating the Preliminary Purchase Order report

1. Select Vendor Bidding > Reports > Vendor Bidding Reports > Preliminary Purchase Orders to display the Preliminary Purchase Order Report page.

2. In the Sort Order section, select the radio button for sorting the report's records: Location, Vendor, or Ship Code.

3. In the Report Criteria section's Year field, select the year associated with the bids to include.

4. In the Bid field, select a bid. To specify multiple bids, insert the pipe symbol between their numbers, for example, 3408|3419|3457.

5. Click OK.

6. In the Print window, specify how to generate the report, and then click OK. The report's default file name depends on the sort order: