Place one or several purchase orders from the purchasing queue

Article • 4/27/2026 • 2 min read

Use the purchasing queue to quickly order one or more items.

Before you place a purchase order, assign a vendor and change the purchase order’s status to Open.

Non-nettable quantities are not considered available. Therefore, the quantity available fields in the Summary and Details grids do not include non-nettable quantities.

Mutli-dimensional inventory parts cannot be backflushed.

To place one or several purchase orders from the purchasing queue

  1. Open the Purchasing Queue Summary (PQSUMM) page.

    • Select Production Management > Production Transactions > Purchasing > Purchasing Queue Summary.

      Or

    • Search for PQSUMM in the Navigation box and then select Purchasing Queue Summary.

      The Purchasing Queue Summary (PQSUMM) page appears.

      The Purchasing Queue Summary window has two grids: Summary and Details.

  2. In the Summary grid, for each Purchase Order that you want to place, select the check box in its Select column.

    To place all the purchase orders, select the Select check box.

  3. Place the purchase orders:

    a. On the grid toolbar, click Place Purchase Order.

    • When started Purchase Orders are available for the selected vendor:

      The Purchase Orders Creation window appears. This window has two grids: Parts ready to create Purchase Order and Purchase Orders available for selected Vendor.

      1. In the Parts ready to create Purchase Order grid, select the check box in the Sel column for the parts that you want to place in the Purchase Order.

      2. In the Purchase Orders available for selected Vendor grid, select the check box in the Sel column for the Purchase Order in which you want to include the parts.

      3. Click Assign All to assign all the line items.

      4. Click Create PO.

        The Purchase Order Creation window displays the created Purchase Order.

      5. Review the Purchase Order:

        To change the status of the created Purchase Order to open, select the check box in the Sel column of the Purchase Order and click Open PO.

        To print the Purchase Order, select the check box in the Sel column of the Purchase Order and click Print PO.

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