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titleNote: Definitions

Purchase Order Line Owner: The unit/library responsible for creation of the order; it is also the unit most likely to receive and pay for the item, though there are some exceptions

Purchase Order Line (POL): An individual order which includes all the details of the order

Purchase Order (PO): What is sent to the vendor; a Purchase order could include one or multiple purchase order lines (POLs)

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Purchase Order Line (POL) Owner

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  • 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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In this case, we have created POL owners that represent three separate ITS Units, as shown below:

 

Purchase Order Line (POL)

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To create an order in Alma, we first create a Purchase order line.

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It also includes historical information and vendor communication.

Purchase Order (PO)

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A Purchase order represents what is sent to the vendor as the final stage of the purchasing workflow.

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