3. Releasing Purchase Requests
When building purchase orders from the Purchase Request screen, the purchasing agent has two options for releasing these requests. The first is the standard way of releasing per item by right-clicking on the item and selecting . You can also use CTRL+SHIFT to select multiple items to release. The second option is to group by vendor and review them as a group. By right-clicking on the vendor, you can release all purchase requests for that vendor. When using this method the default item source for that vendor will be used, and you will not be prompted to choose an item source (assuming multiple item source records exist for the item). If you want to individually select the item sources while releasing items, you may want to release them per item.
Another option you will notice when grouping by vendor is the option. This option enables you to ensure you have no additional demand on the item, since the MRP will be run for all vendors. Selecting this option will run MRP as well as release those planned orders to create additional purchase requests if required.
