Introduction to Purchase Orders in SEMINE

SEMINE is involved in only parts of the purchase order process, and it is important to be aware of where the various actions take place, primarily either in ERP or in SEMINE.

Steps	Action	System
1.	Employee creates purchase order	ERP
2.	Internal control of purchase orders in accordance with purchasing routines (optional)	ERP
3.	The purchase order is sent to the supplier	ERP
4.	Goods receipts (optional)	ERP
5.	Receive invoice from supplier	SEMINE
6.	Matching invoice and purchase order, as well as approval process	SEMINE
7.	Bookkeeping in the general ledger and remittance	SEMINE and ERP
8.	Archiving of purchase orders and invoices	SEMINE and ERP

As illustrated in the table above, SEMINE handles the matching process between purchase invoices received from suppliers and purchase order information synchronized from ERP, alternatively from an external purchase order system. For simplicity, in the rest of the articles related to purchase orders, we will use the term ERP to refer to the system that generates purchase orders.