7.1 Overview

The Purchasing Module helps the purchaser in a company to complete a purchasing plan, request a quote, issue a purchasing order, and implement the whole RTV process. Through the Purchasing Module, each of these tasks can be efficiently controlled. A Purchaser just needs to review the purchasing plan at a specified time with MRP.

Order Management

• RFQ (Request for Quote):  to deal with all quotes from vendors; it can also be generated by issuing a related purchasing order.
• PO (Purchasing Order):  create a new PO according to requirements; edit an existing PO; support Qty price and contract price based on the list price.
• Swap Order: create a swap order for goods that need to be replaced with new ones; or return parts to a vendor and ask the vendor ship a new one part.
• RTV (Return to Vendor):  create a RTV for goods that need to be returned to the vendor.

 Vendor Management 

• Edit and track many vendors’ information, which is linked to orders like quote and RFQ. Ensure data’s accuracy.
•  Generate an evaluation report of vendors by conditions like on-time delivery rate and product quality.
• A 2BizBox user can contact a vendor via 2BizBox VG module. The vendor doesn’t even need install 2BizBox to utilize this feature.

 Purchasing Plan

• Material Requirement Plan:  predict a company’s production, part shortage, and requirements by running MRP; offer many predication ways; predication for different types of parts; do analysis by minimum and maximum quantity.
• Work sheet:  generate quotes and purchasing orders based on MRP; also manually create purchasing plans.

 Look up and Reports

• The multi-look up function helps managers look up and monitor PO easily and quickly. 
• Generate statistics reports in real-time and on demand.