P.O. Generation;

[jetblast]

I've recently got Sage 50 Accounts Pro (21.3.6.108) to integrate with an Ecommerce package, one of the primary aims being to automate supplier purchase order generation & acceptance as our Ecommerce platform is pretty limited in this area.

I'm possibly misinterpreting the purchase order capabilities of Sage, but I had expected that as Sage already has supplier account information & stock level / re-order level data at the product level that I would be able to use it to automatically generate PO's to specific suppliers based on the stock & re-order levels of products tied up to that manufacturer. As far as I can see all I can do is launch a manual PO creation screen where neither the supplier or relevant stock figures have any impact - is this correct or am I missing something?

A scout around the web seems to suggest that automated PO generation is a feature of US versions, but don't seem available in the UK version.

If this is the case, is there an upgrade or add-on available that will allow automated PO generation based on the supplier & stock data tied up to products?

Thanks in advance.

[brucedenney]

You need to look for "Shortfall" in Sales Order Processing and In Products

In SOP it orders what is on orders but not in stock, in stock it orders to bring everything up to minimum stock, but ignores stock.

I wrote a tool a while ago to make a PO's to do both at once.

[jetblast]

Appreciated!

I was trying to do this directly from the PO module, but couldn't figure it out...... Shortfall to PO does exactly what I need