Buying

Supplier, Request for Quotation, Supplier Quotation and Purchase Order — the procure-to-pay chain.

The procure-to-pay pipeline upstream of invoicing: Supplier, Request for Quotation, Supplier Quotation, Purchase Order.

What it does

Buying mirrors Selling on the supply side. Demand arrives as a Material Request (from Stock, reorder rules or a Production Plan), goes out as a Request for Quotation, comes back as Supplier Quotations to compare, and is committed as a Purchase Order. Receipt and billing then happen in Stock (Purchase Receipt) and Accounts (Purchase Invoice), each keeping a link back to the ordered row.

Key features

Supplier — supplier groups, default accounts and warehouses, hold status and blocked suppliers.
RFQ → Supplier Quotation — multi-supplier quoting with a supplier portal for direct submission.
Purchase Order — with received/billed percentages, subcontracting flags and drop-ship routing straight to a customer.
Supplier Scorecard — periodic scoring by criteria and variables, driving standings that can block ordering.
Buying-side pricing — Price List, Pricing Rule and Purchase Taxes and Charges Templates.
Blanket Order — long-term purchase commitments drawn down by individual Purchase Orders.

Entity relationships

Each diagram below is one connected cluster of entities. Edges are labelled with the fieldname that carries them — see relationship notation for how to read the crow’s feet.

Supplier

Supplier anchors the buying model, connecting purchase documents with scorecards, supplied materials, and supplier-specific customer identifiers.

Document composition

Parent documents and the child tables they own.

Parent	Table field	Child table	Req
Purchase Order	`item_wise_tax_details`	Item Wise Tax Detail
Purchase Order	`items`	Purchase Order Item	yes
Purchase Order	`payment_schedule`	Payment Schedule
Purchase Order	`pricing_rules`	Pricing Rule Detail
Purchase Order	`supplied_items`	Purchase Order Item Supplied
Purchase Order	`taxes`	Purchase Taxes and Charges
Request for Quotation	`items`	Request for Quotation Item	yes
Request for Quotation	`suppliers`	Request for Quotation Supplier	yes
Supplier	`accounts`	Party Account
Supplier	`companies`	Allowed To Transact With
Supplier	`customer_numbers`	Customer Number At Supplier
Supplier	`portal_users`	Portal User
Supplier Quotation	`item_wise_tax_details`	Item Wise Tax Detail
Supplier Quotation	`items`	Supplier Quotation Item	yes
Supplier Quotation	`pricing_rules`	Pricing Rule Detail
Supplier Quotation	`taxes`	Purchase Taxes and Charges
Supplier Scorecard	`criteria`	Supplier Scorecard Scoring Criteria	yes
Supplier Scorecard	`standings`	Supplier Scorecard Scoring Standing	yes
Supplier Scorecard Period	`criteria`	Supplier Scorecard Scoring Criteria	yes
Supplier Scorecard Period	`variables`	Supplier Scorecard Scoring Variable

Entity reference

Transactions

4 entities — submittable business documents that post ledger entries.

Masters

5 entities — reference data with an independent lifecycle.

Child tables

10 entities — row sets owned by exactly one parent document.

Stock

Item, Warehouse, and every movement of quantity and value — Stock Ledger Entry, Bin, batches, serials and reconciliation.

Accounts

The financial core — Chart of Accounts, GL Entry, invoices, payments, taxes, budgets and the receivable/payable ledgers.

Subcontracting

Subcontracting Order and Receipt — outsourced production where you supply the raw material and a supplier does the work.

Setup

Company, Item Group, UOM, Territory, Employee and the other cross-cutting masters every other module links to.

Look it up

Complete relationship index

Every Link and Table field in scope, sorted by source entity.

Alphabetical entity index

All 448 entities with kind, module, naming rule and reference counts.