Purchase Orders application

You use the Purchase Orders application to create and manage purchase orders for configuration-managed parts. A purchase order is an authorized order from a purchasing agent or department to an internal supplier or external vendor.

In this application, you can create change orders. You can also generate internal purchase orders against another storeroom. A storeroom-to-storeroom purchase can be thought of as a transfer order or an internal purchase order since the product uses the Purchase Orders application and the Issues and Transfers application to track these types of part movements.

On the Performance tab of a purchase order, you can analyze a vendor's performance for that purchase order. You specify the criteria for the performance analysis. You can review data such as, the vendor's compliance with requested dates, the average number of defects that were created, and the average length of time that parts were in different statuses during the receiving and inspection process.

If a vendor or supplier cannot deliver an ordered part, an alternative part can replace it. The alternative part can be accepted if the airworthiness of the aircraft is not adversely affected. The alternative part must be specified as an interchangeable part and as a purchasing alternative part for the original part number. If the PO line for the part is associated with a contract, the alternative part must be specified on the contract.

You can create purchase orders by using the following methods:

• From the Purchase Orders application
• From the Purchase Requisitions application
• From a request for quotation (RFQ) in the Request for Quotations application
• From the Inventory application by using the inventory reorder actions
• From the Purchase Contracts application by creating a release

You can manually create shipment records and shipment request records in the Purchase Orders application, or in the Organizations application, you can specify that these records are automatically created for different types of shipments.