Using a Master Purchase Order to Create Child PO's

Question

My client needs the ability to create a master PO at the beginning of the year to capture all of the items and item prices that will be ordered from a contract manufacturer vendor.  When they need to order product, they want to copy the master PO to a 'child' PO and issue the child PO to the vendor.  Has anyone created modification to handle this?  There should be a link between the master and child PO's.  Could a UDO be defined that would allow me to copy the data to a real PO?

Answer 1

Hello Martin,
You can always copy an existing PO into a new blank PO and change its row contents. Open the 'Parent' PO --> Data -->Duplicate -> A new document opens with the same row contents. Edit the rows accordingly -->Give the new BP name and save.
Now you have the 'Child PO'.
Or
Are you looking for Split PO option?
You can create a Parent PO and split it later according to your requirements into Child POs.
To access the tab, choose Administration --> System Initialization --> Document Settings --> Per Document --> Select PO --> check the box "SPLIT PO".
You can split POs based on the warehouses.
Hope the information is useful to you.
Thanks
Krishna Kishor Kammaje