Branch Purchasing

Purchasing for a branch can be done centrally (at the main site) or at the branch. When a mixture of central and branch purchasing is allowed there are special requirements that must be taken into consideration.

When a branch decides to purchase for itself, Acumen installs all the purchasing capabilities at the branch. The branch must of course have stock control files if it wishes to utilise full or semi automatic purchasing. No stock file is required to purchase only for customer orders at the branch.

Purchase orders raised by a branch are copied and transmitted to the central branch on a regular basis. In this way the central branch is able to update its stock levels and validate supplier documents from the purchase orders.

Where the central branch is raising purchase orders for the branch these orders are periodically transmitted to the branch where they can have goods received against them and be returned for stock and supplier document updating in the same manner as branch originated purchase orders.

Control of branch orders remains with the branch while control of orders raised at head office on behalf of a branch passes to the branch as the document is transmitted. Once sent to a branch an order should only be altered at the branch, changes are automatically brought back to update the head office copy.