Financial management is often the primary factor separating a successful company from a struggling one. No matter the size of your organization, or what industry it’s in, excellent financial management is the key to running your business processes like a well-oiled machine. Thankfully, there are many cloud based platforms and tools available that any business…
As Marc Andresson famously said, “software is eating the world.” This is one of the most powerful and accurate business statements of the last decade. Indeed, today it’s easy to see how nearly every part of the modern enterprise is powered by software. In the past, business software centered around a few core solutions: the…
Let’s talk about purchase order creation. Buying goods and services for yourself is pretty simple, both for you as the buyer and for the vendor. You know what you need, when you need it by, what the allocated budget is, etc. You can source the product or service from the right vendor and simply buy…
If you’re exploring the procurement and purchasing space, you’ve probably come across terms that appear similar, but aren’t the same. For example, procurement and purchasing (which aren’t the same thing). Another example is PR and PO. A PR is a purchase requisition, while a PO is a purchase order. While it may seem like these…
The How, What, and Why of Standardizing Purchasing In the early days of a business, requisitions are a rather straightforward operation. It can be sufficiently overseen by a single finance or operations manager, especially considering the limited number of purchase requests and vendors there are to manage. This isn’t the case in larger organizations. As…
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The purchase requisition, or purchase request, is the launchpad of the purchasing process. As such, it’s super important to understand what it is! Here, we’ll elaborate on the differences between a purchase requisition and a purchase order. We’ll also explain why more organizations are deploying a proper requisition management system, and why this is arguably…
As organizations grow, procurement and finance responsibilities naturally become more complex. From a relatively small number of vendors and purchases to manage, procurement and finance managers find themselves overseeing purchasing and partnership activities addressing a variety of business needs for a number of departments and teams. When purchasing operations become so complex that bottlenecks and…
Everything you need to know to implement a new purchase order process successfully With your business moving forward fast, you’ve surely realized it’s time to level up your purchasing and procurement processes. The first place you want to start—and rightfully so—is with the important process of issuing purchase orders. What is The Purchase Order Process…
Why Should You Open Purchase Orders on NetSuite? Very often we encounter modern, fast-moving organizations that leverage NetSuite as an ERP system, and are now focused on implementing a proper purchase-to-pay process – starting with approving purchases, booking goods received, and onboarding new vendors. Managing Approvals on NetSuite PO Most of these organizations have tried…
It’s easily understood why businesses aim to deploy a purchase order (PO) process on NetSuite. Doing so offers a number of benefits, including helping them achieve visibility, increase accountability, improve budget control and compliance, gain early involvement from the procurement team in purchasing activities, and reduce the friction that arises from the reliance on multiple…
Implementing a purchasing process is a company-wide process, and that means that you’ll have multiple types of users from different departments that hold different opinions about how this should go. Read through to get some useful information about how to approach stakeholders in modern companies. The types of users involved At a high level, there…
