Purchase Direct Materials
Buyers or planners who are responsible for ensuring available material to support production can use Purchase Direct Materials to:
• Enable monitoring of planned orders.
• Generate purchase orders for direct material requirements.
Users of this browse collection are typically authorized to create discrete purchase orders, release blanket purchase orders, create supplier scheduled orders, and update supplier schedules with firm receipt requirements.
Note: Materials expediters who do not create purchase orders for direct materials can use the Monitor Material Shortages browse collection.
Purchase Direct Materials uses the following supporting programs and browses:
• Supply Demand Summary
• Supply/Demand Details
• Inventory Detail by Site
• Scheduled Order Browse
• Purchase Order Browse