PO20 Standing PO's

We have some very old standing PO's and are running into issues with inactive accounting units causing issues with releasing the PO's. Our purchasing department prefers in some cases to do standing PO's for ease. What is your standard practice with standing PO's? Do you make new ones every year? Do you leave them open for a specific time frame? Is there a screen in Lawson that allows you to do a standing PO process? We are running into both accounting unit issues, and AP - Matching issues.

Thank you in advance.

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gtesche

We have run into the same issues here when we try to close out older Standing POs.

You can create Standing POs using PO25 (both blanket and standing type).

I think the standing type work better as you can schedule jobs to automatically create POs, but we haven't tried this method yet.

unknown

Although you can use PO25 to create standing/blanket orders, we've chosen to create them as stand alone POs for 12 months of items. We create a new PO every year so that we don't have any issues with invoicing, etc.

sue-moerlein

Standard practice is to keep the standing POs open for one year. I would suggest leveraging Blanket or Standing Orders (agreements) for these types of purchases. A blanket agreement creates releases from an existing purchase. You can setup the cost defaulting structure to reference blanket prices when creating requisitions. A standing agreement (standing order) is used to order items and supplies that will you require frequently.

As far as your concerns with the matching side of the standing POs I would suggest reviewing the KB1195837 article on Infor Xtreme this should assist with concerns for RNI. Also, this topic has been presented several times at Inforum. I would be happy to send you a copy of the presentation. If you would like a copy please contact me at sue.moerlein@infor.com.

If you still have concerns with matching for the standing POs. I would suggest working with our Infor Support team. I know they are very knowledgeable in this area and would be happy to assist in resolving any questions.

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