Purchases
Purchasing commitments — operating contexts, requisitions, quote requests, quotes, orders, returns, and price conditions.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Purchase activities | A call, meeting, or task on a supplier deal. |
| Purchasing certification requirements | Supplier certification that the company requires or recommends for a supplier group and product family when approving purchase orders. |
| Purchase deals | A commercial opportunity with one supplier, managed through a purchase pipeline. |
| Purchase deal stakeholders | A person on the buying team or the supplier side who has a role in a purchase deal. |
| Default purchase payment terms | Standard terms that a purchasing commercial unit proposes on purchase quotes and orders when the supplier has no payment term. |
| Purchase order billing milestones | A milestone in a purchase order billing plan, with the percent of the line quantity billable once it is reached. |
| Purchase order discount allocations | Share of one header discount applied to one purchase order line. |
| Purchase order header discounts | A discount applied at header level on a purchase order and spread across its line items. |
| Purchase order line items | A line of a purchase order for a product item or custom item, with quantity and negotiated unit cost. |
| Purchase return line items | A line of a purchase return for a product item sent back to the supplier. |
| Purchase returns | A document for returning received goods to a supplier. |
| Purchase orders | An authorization to buy stocked products or engineered goods from a supplier. |
| Purchase order taxes | A tax on one purchase order line, with base, rate and amount. |
| Purchase pipelines | A configurable sequence of stages that purchase opportunities follow from intake to award or loss. |
| Purchase pipeline stages | A defined point in a purchase pipeline through which a supplier deal advances. |
| Supplier prices | Purchase price a supplier charges for one item, by minimum quantity and validity window. |
| Purchase quote line items | A line of a purchase quote with product item, quantity and negotiated unit cost. |
| RFQ line items | A line of an RFQ with the requirements, quantity and deadline for supplier proposals. |
| RFQs | A document sent to suppliers to collect comparable offers against set requirements and deadlines. |
| RFQ invited suppliers | Supplier invited to respond to a request for quote. |
| Purchase quotes | An offer from a supplier that the buyer receives before creating a purchase order. |
| Purchase quote taxes | A tax on one purchase quote line, with base, rate and amount. |
| Purchase requisition line items | A line of a requisition with the product item and quantity requested. |
| Purchase requisitions | A demand for stocked products at an inventory site. |
| Supplier scorecard KPIs | A weighted KPI score on a supplier scorecard. |
| Supplier scorecards | A performance evaluation of a supplier for a purchasing commercial unit. |
| Supplier qualifications | A decision by a purchasing commercial unit on whether a supplier is qualified, with criteria and review date. |