Purchase orders in your Mini-WMS can be added either manually or via the import of excel spreadsheet methods in the purchase order screen.
The purchase order can be in one of the following statuses at any time::


If the item is lot controlled, you should see a lot field on this screen.

After adding the first item, you can add more items.

The App shows the PO header and details.
To delete the purchase order, click the delete button.

Click the ‘+’ sign.
To delete the purchase order line, click the delete button.

You can slide to the right to see more details.

The quantity ordered, quantity to put, and quantity received.

The itemline screen shows up.
If the item is lot controlled, then you should be able to see a lot number on the PO line item.

Import process: The format of the Excel file to Import:
To import purchase orders via excel, click on the “Import Purchase Orders” button and upload your Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet should consist of two sheets: “purchaseorder” and “purchaseorderline”. The import process will look for these sheet names with the exact spelling, it is case sensitive. So, it needs to be written as they are. Below are the excel sheets and their columns.
The purchaseorder spreadsheet columns should contain the first row as the column names of the purchase order header fields, then, in the next rows the header information, as shown below: In the case below we have shown 2 orders. You can have as many as you like.
"purchaseorder"
po_number vendor_number
POrder001 Vendor1
POrder002 Vendor2
The purchaseorderline spreadsheet columns should contain the first row as the column names of the purchase order detail fields, then, in the next rows the details information, as shown below:
You can see below, some items are lot controlled and some are not. Also, those item requiring expiry date, it has been set, otherwise the expiry date should be set to 2100-01-01 i.e. never expires. For the fifo date default is 2000-01-01.
"purchaseorderline"
po_number line_number item_number lot_num fifo_date expiry_date qty_ordered
POrder001 1 1628437592043 LOT1020 2000-01-01 2024-09-01 6
POrder001 2 7026814395746 2000-01-01 2024-09-05 9
POrder001 3 9421863057291 LOT1099 2000-01-01 2024-09-20 10
POrder002 1 5139678402157 2000-01-01 2024-09-01 5
POrder002 2 8715246309132 LOT1000 2000-01-01 2024-09-01 2