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Items On Order

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Items which have been or will soon be ordered from vendors are listed in this window.  These items have been assigned to Purchase Orders.

The Status indicates Pending (not yet placed) or In Transit (placed and waiting for delivery).

You may export the list (using the Gold Arrow button), view and edit listed purchase orders.

Highlighting an item displays the vendor name, order date and expected date in the lower panel of the screen.

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Sorting The List

You may sort the displayed information by clicking on the column title bar.  Double clicking changes the sort order from ascending to descending as indicated by the triangle symbols which appear beside the column title.

Locate

After selecting the column to sort and search, enter text relevant to what you want to find.

Press Tab to find the item

Press Enter to find and open the PO.

Query and Export List

The Query (blue question mark) icon allows you to filter the list based on your pre-defined settings.

The Gold Arrow sends displayed listing to HTML, Excel, Word, etc. All visible entries in the Listing can be exported or copied out to some other destination.  Make choices as prompted.  (See Send To Window)

Displayed Information

SKU - your primary SKU

Description - short description of the item

PO Number - generated purchase order number

Ordered - quantity being ordered

Cost - vendor cost to you

Status

Pending - the item is in the Create/Place PO group and the vendor has not yet been notified.
In Transit - the item is in the Receive PO group and you are awaiting arrival.

Actions

View PO - review the purchase order.  This is an active view and allows you to modify the purchase order.

Print - Prints the list and includes the date the item is expected to arrive.