Supplemental purchase orders are a way of tracking additional expenses incurred when purchasing product. These expenses typically are freight charges or tariffs incurred from importing product. Supplemental purchase orders may be created for any non-closed purchase order, usually before the product is received.

 

During the receiving process the total expense from all supplemental purchase orders are applied to the Freight value of each item on the master PO. The supplemental purchase order uses the PO number from the master PO and appends a letter to it. These letters are assigned sequentially from A to Z, meaning up to 26 supplemental purchase orders may be created for each master PO. This section will detail the how to use the create/change supplemental purchase order utility.