Procurement

In order to acquire all of the materials we need for resale and manufacturing, in the quantities that will meet our market demand, at the right quality level and prices, and doing this in a timely manner is all part of what we know as the procurement process in opentaps. In opentaps we support the best practices in these disciplines with the functionality in these Tabs of the Purchasing Application:

• Suppliers Tab -- managing suppliers, purchase agreements, and outsourcing.
• Planning Tab -- material resource planning (MRP), managing requirements
• Orders Tab -- Purchase Orders, estimating delivery dates, purchasing supplies
• Reports Tab -- management reports about orders, and purchasing activity

A couple of important related discussions will be presented elsewhere in the User Manual:

• Defining your products is presented in Setting Up Your Products and Basic Catalog Manager Manual. You will have to set up your products and catalogs in opentaps before using the Procurement processes.
• Your Production processes will drive Procurement activity and the discussion about how this is managed in opentaps is discussed in "Using Production Management Processing Power". When you have set up your manufacturing processes in opentaps which drive demand for materials,then you can drive or automate the needed procurement from that demand.