Displaying and Sorting the Suggested P/O Queue

You can display and sort the Suggested P/O Queue to best show the purchases you need to make. You can sort by buy lines, buyers, or carrying costs. In addition, you can specify what kind of queue you want to display. After running the Suggest P/O program, you can display the results to decide what to purchase.

To display the Suggested P/O Queue:

  1. From the Purch > Queues menu, select Suggested P/O Queue to display the Suggested P/O Queue screen.

  2. In the Brch field, enter the branch you want to display. To display all branches, type All.

  3. In the Buyer field, enter the buyer's queue you want to display. To display all, leave this field blank. To assign a buyer, see Assigning Buyers to Buy Lines.

  4. In the Sort field, select a sort method as follows:

Selection

Sorts by...

By Buyline

buy line name.

By Asd $ Carry Cst

ascending carrying costs.

By Dsd $ Carry Cst

descending carrying costs.

By Buyer/Buyline

buyer and then by buy line.

If you want to sort by buyer only, you need to assign that buyer to the buy line. To assign a buyer, see Assigning Buyers to Buy Lines.

By Buyer/Asd $ Cst

buyer and then ascending carrying costs.

  1.  In the Type field, select the kind of queue you want to display. Press F10 to select one of the queues. For a description of each type, see Suggested Purchase Order Queue Principles and Guidelines.

  2. Use the Setup hot key to select columns which display on the report. You can shuffle the column selections to best suit your company's needs.

  3. Press Enter. The Suggested P/O queue displays.

  4. Use the ChgVw hot key to change the Total Buy column to either Last Line Buy or Next PO Date if that information is more applicable.

  5. Use the parameters you enter to convert the suggested purchases into actual purchase orders.

  6. Press Esc to clear the queue and select new parameters.

See Also:

Running the Suggest P/O Program

Suggested Purchase Order Queue Principles and Guidelines