Supply Chain Management Cycles

Procure – to- pay cycle :

The procure-to-pay systems enable the integration of purchasing department with account payables
department. a common definition of procure-to-pay, linking the procurement process and financial
department.
Supplier1 Supplier2 Supplier3

Create Purchase Request for Quotation Request for Quotation

Requisition

Approval For Quotation Quotation Analysis Quotation from

Supplier

Purchase Order Receipt (Inventory) Invoice (Accounting

(Purchasing) Payables)

Transfer ,Import and Post to General Payment of Invoice

Ledger

Procure – to- pay cycle steps:

1) Create Requisition:

Requisition is nothing but a formal request to buy something (like Inventory material, office supplies etc)
needed for the enterprise. Only an employee can create one. There are two types of requisitions: Internal
Requisition: Internal requisitions provide the mechanism for requesting and transferring material from one
inventory to other inventory.

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Purchase requisition: Unlike Internal requisitions, Purchase requisitions are used for requesting material
from suppliers.

Navigation:

Purchasing Vision Operations (USA) > Requisitions > Requisitions

Choose the requisition type and enter the Item, quantity, Price details in the Lines tab.

In Source Details tab, specify the Buyer name.

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Click the Distributions button. Enter the Charge Account.

Save the work. The status of the requisition will now be “Incomplete”. And now the Approve button is
highlighted. The requisition needs to be approved first before proceeding further by the concerned
authority. Submit this requisition for Approval by clicking on the Approve button. The status will now be
updated to “In Process” .The workflow then will send an Approval notification to the concerned person
(derived based on hierarchy used—Position or Supervisor hierarchy) using which he can Approve or
Reject the requisition.

At any time the status of requisition can be checked using the Requisition summary window.

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Navigation:

Requisitions > Requisition Summary

Enter requisition number and click on the find button.

2) Create Purchase Order:

There are 4 types of Purchase Orders:

1. Standard PO: A Standard PO is created for one–time purchase of various items

2. Planned PO: A Planned PO is a long–term agreement committing to buy items or services from a
single source. You must specify tentative delivery schedules and all details for goods or services that you
want to buy, including charge account, quantities, and estimated cost.

3. Blanket agreement: A Blanket PO is created when you know the detail of the goods or services you
plan to buy from a specific supplier in a period, but you do not know the detail of your delivery schedules.

4. Contract agreement: Contract purchase agreements are created with your suppliers to agree

on specific terms and conditions without indicating the goods and services that you will be purchasing

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Navigation for creating a standard PO:

Purchase Orders > Purchase Orders

Choose type as Standard Purchase Order. Enter the Supplier, Buyer. In the Lines tab, specify the line
number, line type, Item, quantity, price etc.

Click Terms to enter terms, conditions, and control information for purchase orders.

Click Currency button to enter and change currency information for purchase orders, RFQs, and
quotations.

Click Shipments button to enter multiple shipments for standard and planned purchase order lines
Purchase order shipment specifies the quantity, ship–to organization and location, date you want your
supplier to deliver the items on a purchase order line, and country of origin for the items. When you save,
Purchasing creates distributions depending on the default information available.

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To enter more shipment information, select the More tab.

 Enter the Receipt Close Tolerance percent, Invoice Close Tolerance percent to set the receiving and
invoice close point.
 Select one of the following options for Match Approval Level:

Two–Way: Purchase order and invoice quantities must match within tolerance before the

corresponding invoice can be paid.

Three–Way: Purchase order, receipt, and invoice quantities must match within tolerance

before the corresponding invoice can be paid.

Four–Way: Purchase order, receipt, accepted, and invoice quantities must match within

tolerance before the corresponding invoice can be paid.

 Select an Invoice Match Option:

Purchase Order: Payables must match the invoice to the purchase order.

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Receipt: Payables must match the invoice to the receipt.

Save the work.

Click the Receiving Controls button to enter receiving control information for purchase orders.

- Enter the maximum acceptable number of Days Early and Days Late for receipts.

- Enter the Action for receipt date control.

- Enter the maximum acceptable over–receipt Tolerance percent (receipts that exceed the

quantity received tolerance).

- Enter the Action for Over receipt Quantity.

- Select Allow Substitute Receipts to indicate that receivers can receive substitute items in place

of ordered items.

- Enter the default Receipt Routing that you assign goods: Direct Delivery, Inspection Required,

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or Standard Receipt.

- Enter the Enforce Ship To location option to determine whether the receiving location must be

the same as the ship–to location.

Save the work.

Click Distributions button to enter distributions for the shipments.

Select more tab to enter more details and the requisition number (optional).

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Save the work.

Click on the Approve button to initiate the Approval process.

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3)Create Receipt:

Create a receipt to receive the items in the Purchase Order.

Navigation:

ReceivingReceipts

Enter the PO Number and select find button.

Go to Lines, check the lines you want to receive in the PO.

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Click on Header button and Save which creates the receipt.

4)Create Invoice in Payables:

Once the goods are received, it’s time to pay the vendor for the goods purchased and hence the invoices
are created.

Navigation:

Payables, Vision Operations (USA) > InvoicesEntryInvoices

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Enter type — Standard, supplier information and amount.

Click the Match button to match to either Purchase Order or Receipt (depending on the Invoice Match
option specified on the PO) and avoid manually entering the invoice.

Enter the PO Number you want match to and click Find.

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Select the lines required and click on Match button.

Click on Distribute button

to navigate to the Match to Purchase Order Distributions window.

This creates the invoice and you can see the status of the invoice as “Never Validated”. it has to be
Validated and Accounted before you can pay it.

Validating the Invoice:

Click on Actions Button and Select “Validate”. Click on OK button.

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Now you can see the status of the invoice as “Validated”, if there are no issues during validation.

Create Accounting Entries:

Click on Actions Button and Select “Create Accounting”. Click on OK button.

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Now we can see the Accounted status as “Yes”.

You can see the Accounting Entries here:

Tools View Accounting

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5)Making a Payment:

Go to the Invoice window and query the invoice you want to pay. You would see Amount paid as 0.00
before you make a payment.

Click Actions button. Select “Pay in full” and click “OK”.

Select the Bank Account and Document. Save the Work.

Now that the payment is made, when you query for the invoice in Invoice window, you will the Amount
Paid as $4,000.00.

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Create Accounting entries for payment.

Click Actions and select “Create Accounting”

Select the void checkbox to cancel the payment.

View Accounting Entries:

In the Payments window, query for the payment.

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Tools menuView Accounting

You can also pay the invoices using Payment Batch screen. Refer to the article “Make AP Payments
through Payment Batches”

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6)Transfer to General Ledger:

Navigation:

Payables Responsibility > View Requests

Run the concurrent program “Payables Transfer to General Ledger” with the required parameters.

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