purchasing-manage-purchasing.md

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Overview of Tasks to Manage Purchasing	Outlines tasks to manage your purchasing or procurement processes, including how purchase invoices and purchase orders work.		SorenGP	dynamics-nav-2018	article	na	na	na	procurement, supply, vendor order	08/10/2017	sgroespe	HT	4fefaef7380ac10836fcac404eea006f55d8556f	a265cd9e34bd379a6ffc4e7b8f5bcbdfd25702cd	en-au	10/16/2017

Purchasing

You create a purchase invoice or purchase order to record the cost of purchases and to track accounts payable. If you need to control an inventory, purchase invoices are also used to dynamically update inventory levels so that you can minimise your inventory costs and provide better customer service. The purchasing costs, including service expenses, and inventory values that result from posting purchase invoices contribute to profit figures and other financial KPIs on your Home page.

You must use purchase orders if your purchasing process requires that you record partial receipts of an order quantity, for example, because the full quantity was not available at the vendor. If you sell items by delivering directly from your vendor to your customer, as a drop shipment, then you must also use purchase orders. For more information, see How to: Make Drop Shipments. In all other aspects, purchase orders work the same way as purchase invoices.

You can have purchase invoices created automatically by using the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service to convert PDF invoices from your vendors to electronic documents, which are then converted to purchase invoices by a workflow. To use this functionality, you must first sign up for the OCR service, and then perform various setup. For more information, see How to: Process Incoming Documents.

Products can be both inventory items and services. For more information, see How to: Register New Items.

For all purchase processes, you can incorporate an approval workflow, for example, to require that large purchases are approved by the accounting manager. For more information, see Using Approval Workflows.

The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them.

To	See
Create a purchase invoice to record your agreement with a vendor to purchase products on certain delivery and payment terms.	How to: Record Purchases
Create a purchase quote to reflect a request for quote from your vendor, which you can later convert to a purchase order.	How to: Request Quotes
Create a purchase invoice for all or selected lines on a sales invoice.	How to: Purchase Items for a Sale
Perform an action on an unpaid posted purchase invoice to automatically create a CR/Adj note and either cancel the purchase invoice or recreate it so you can make corrections.	How to: Correct or Cancel Unpaid Sales Invoices
Create a purchase CR/Adj note to revert a specific posted purchase invoice to reflect which products you are returning to the vendor and which payment amount you will collect.	How to: Process Purchase Returns or Cancellations
Prepare to invoice multiple receipts from the same vendor once by combining the receipts on one invoice.	How to: Combine Receipts on a Single Invoice
Learn how [!INCLUDEd365fin] calculates when you must order an item to receive it on a certain date.	Date Calculation for Purchases

See Also

Setting Up Purchasing
How to: Register New Vendors
Managing Payables
Managing Projects
[Working with [!INCLUDEd365fin]](ui-work-product.md)
General Business Functionality