How do you make a PO for something that's not an Item? Like Carpet Cleaning?

Good Afternoon,

We are sitting around talking about M3 today, which is dangerous, and someone had a question that I thought was pretty good, we just haven't stumbled across it yet.

How do make / cut a Purchase Order for something (i.e. a service) that isn't in the Item Master, and ultimately isn't going to be received into Inventory?

For example, we've got a vendor who does the Carpet Cleaning in the building, and he wants a PO from our system before he commits to the work.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Steve

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We do this a lot. What we did is create a generic non-inventory item like "Service" and then create the PO against that item. The person creating the PO would change the name to be more specific on the PO but would be all listed as the same items. Doesn't allow much for tracking but it allows for the PO to be created.

Loretta Bennett

They are non stock items that have the G/l Codes in them so when you purchase them, they go to the correct GL. the only way to put those to the right GL. We have them as a certain type of item and then had the Finance people name those codes with good nomeclature

igillet

we do the same process and it works well !

elisabetta-venezia

we use "xx items" that are not inventory items and have some specific coding so that the cost goes to the correct department and account

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