Procurement Management

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Introduction

Procurement Management deals with all the activities related to the purchase of goods and services from external suppliers and the corresponding reporting.

This application area of Openbravo covers Requisition to Receipt and Invoicing parts of the Procure To Pay business flow and Supplier Returns business process. For Payments Management of Procure To Pay see Financial Management // Receivables & Payables application area.

Procure to Pay Business Flow

Procure to Pay workflow manages the life-cycle of a procurement process.

Due to its complexity and different roles involved it is convenient to split Procure to Pay down into two main sub-processes:

1. Requisition to Receipt process starts by the creation and management of purchase requisitions and corresponding purchase orders to the moment the warehouse staff receives the merchandise.
2. Supplier Invoice to Payment continues previous sub-process by registering the supplier invoices and closes it by paying supplier invoices.

Configuration

The following setup needs to be done before performing the process:

• Products
• Costing rules
• Landed Cost Types
• Business Partners (Vendors & Suppliers).
• Price configuration

Transactions

Openbravo Procurement Management provides a flexible and automated procurement workflow.
Starting from here you will learn how to operate Openbravo procurement management.

• Requisition
• Manage Requisitions
• Requisition To Order
• Purchase Order
• Goods Receipt
• Pending Goods Receipts
• Purchase Invoice
• Matched Invoices
• Return to Vendor
• Return to Vendor Shipment
• Landed Cost

Analysis Tools

Starting from here, you will learn how to analyze "Procurement Management" related data in Openbravo.

• Purchase Order Report
• Purchase Dimensional Report
• Goods Receipts Dimensional Report
• Purchase Invoice Dimensional Report
• Matched Purchase Orders

Advanced

• Vendor Invoice Report

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