Purchase Order Amounts and Quantities

Multiple amounts are maintained at purchase order header and line levels.  These amounts are as follows:

·     Target Amount.  Represents a target amount for a blanket order; entered by the user for information only.  This amount is then compared to the Total Amount.

·     Total Amount.  Represents the global historical amount of all the releases that have been created since the beginning of the purchase order.

·     Current Amount.  Represents the amount of all the open releases of the open lines of the current purchase order.

·     Line Extended Price.  Represents the amount of all the open releases of a purchase order line.

Two quantities are maintained at the purchase order line level:

·     Maximum Line Quantity.  Represents the maximum quantity that can be ordered for a line; entered by the user.  The maximum line quantity is used to control the quantity ordered for a part.  The maximum quantity might limit the order quantity based on undesirable pricing conditions or be used to delimit quotas among several vendors and purchase orders.

·     Target Quantity.  Represents the quantity that is used to calculate purchase order line item price based on a quotation; entered by the user.  Target amounts may be entered to define a global objective for a blanket order.  The global objective may be tied to a vendor discount that may be negotiated when the target amount is met.