9.2 Batch Dispatch Purchase Orders

Purpose:  Batch dispatch purchase orders in ctcLink.

Audience:  Finance staff.

You must have at least one of these local college managed security roles:

  • ZZ Purchase Order Processing

You must also set these User Preference Definitions:

If you need assistance with the above security roles or User Preference Definitions, please contact your local college supervisor or IT Admin to request role access.

Use the Dispatch POs page to run the PO Dispatch/Print process and dispatch purchase orders, run the Email process, or run the PO Dispatch & Email multi-process job.

Batch Dispatch Purchase Orders

Navigation:  NavBar > Navigator > Purchasing > Purchase Orders > Dispatch POs

  1. The Dispatch POs search page will display.  On the search page, enter a new or existing Run Control ID.
  2. Select the ADD or Search button.  The Dispatch POs page will display.
Dispatch Purchase Orders
  1. From the Dispatch POs page, enter the Business Unit.
  2. Enter the PO ID.
  3. Use the Dispatch Methods to Include group box to select which dispatch methods to include in this run of the process. Selected values are only used as a part of the data selection criteria. To change the method by which the purchase order is to be dispatched, you must modify the dispatch method on the Maintain Purchase Order - Purchase Order page.
  1. From the Miscellaneous Options group box, select the applicable Chartfields value from the drop-down menu:  
    • Select Recycled and Valid Chartfields to process purchase orders regardless of whether the Chartfields are valid or recycled.
    • Select Recycled Chartfields to process only purchase orders with distribution lines whose Chartfields are identified as Recycled. (PO_LINE_DISTRIB.CHARTFIELD_STATUS = 'R').
    • Select Valid Chartfields to process only purchase orders with distribution lines whose Chartfields are identified as Valid. (PO_LINE_DISTRIB.CHARTFIELD_STATUS = 'V').
Dispatch POs page - chartfields
  1. From the Miscellaneous Options group box, select the Change Orders value from the drop-down menu:
    • Select Changed Orders to process only purchase orders that have been changed.
    • Select Changed and UnChanged Orders to process changed and unchanged purchase orders.
    • Select UnChanged Orders to process only purchase orders that have never been changed.
  2. If you select to dispatch changed orders in the Change Orders field, the Print Changes Only option becomes available.  Select to dispatch only the changes to the purchase order, rather than the entire purchase order.
  3. If you create the purchase order from a contract with the Release To Single PO Only option selected, select this option to have the system send only the latest changes to the supplier.
Dispatch POs changed orders group box
  1. Select the Print PO Item Description option to print the item description from the Maintain Purchase Order - Purchase Order page, instead of from the Purchasing Attributes page. The item description stored on the purchase order is in the base language and may have been modified on the purchase order.
  2. Keep all other fields as defaulted.
  3. Select the Run button.  The Process Scheduler Request page will display.
Dispatch POs Run
  1. On the Process Scheduler Request page, select the check box next to the PO BI Publisher Dispatch description.
  2. Select the OK button.  The Dispatch POs page will display.
Process Scheduler Request page
  1. From the Dispatch POs page, make note of the Process Instance number.
  2. Select the Process Monitor link.  The Process List page will display.
Dispatc POs Process Monitor link
  1. On the Process List tab, select the Refresh button until the Run Status = Success and the Distribution Status = Posted.
Process List tab
  1. The process to select the parameters to determine which purchase orders are included in the batch is now complete.
  2. End of procedure.

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