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Purchase Order Line (POL) Owner 

In Alma, the POL owner is defined as a "Library", so the list of available POL owners are in the list of Libraries. The POL owner controls the ship to and bill to addresses on vendor communication.

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A third scenario is the case of the Shared Service unit ITS, which orders for a number of libraries, and the ship to and bill to addresses are not the libraries but rather the ITS facility. In this case, we have created POL owners that represent three separate ITS Units: 

Purchase Order Line (POL)

The Purchase Order line, commonly referred to as POL within Alma, represents the details of a single order. It includes the type of order, the vendor, fund, price, currency, material format, notes to vendor etc. It also includes historical information and vendor communication. To create an order in Alma, we first create a Purchase order line.

Purchase Order (PO)

A Purchase order represents what is sent to the vendor or the last stage of the purchasing workflow. The Purchase order is created from a Purchase order line when a POL is "ordered" or "packaged". PO's can contain one or multiple POLs and can be packaged manually or automatically. For more detailed information, see Packaging and Sending a Purchase Order

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