Purchase Orders

Purchase Orders allow you to keep track of orders and, if EDI is enabled, communicate with your provider. To view purchase orders, click AcquisitionsPurchase Orders.

Naming your purchase order

You can give your purchase order a name.

When creating a purchase order or editing an existing purchase order, the purchase order name must be unique for the ordering agency. Evergreen will display a warning dialog to users, if they attempt to create or edit purchase order names that match the names of already existing purchase orders at the same ordering agency. The Duplicate Purchase Order Name Warning Dialog includes a link that will open the matching purchase order in a new tab.

Purchase Order Names are case sensitive.

Duplicate PO Name Detection When Creating a New Purchase Order

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When a duplicate purchase order name is detected during the creation of a new purchase order, the user may:

  • Click View PO to view the purchase order with the matching name. The purchase order will open in a new tab.
  • Click Cancel to cancel the creation of the new purchase order.
  • Within the Name (optional) field, enter a different, unique name for the new purchase order.

If the purchase order name is unique for the ordering agency, the user will continue filling in the remaining fields and click Save.

If the purchase order name is not unique for the ordering agency, the Save button will remain grayed out to the user until the purchase order is given a unique name.

Duplicate PO Name Detection When Editing the Name of an Existing Purchase Order

To change the name of an existing purchase order:

  1. Within the purchase order, the Name of the purchase order is a link (located at the top left-hand side of the purchase order). Click the PO Name.
  2. A new window will open, where users can rename the purchase order.
  3. Enter the new purchase order name.
  4. Click OK.
PO Name Detection 2

If the new purchase order name is unique for the ordering agency, the purchase order will be updated to reflect the new name. If the purchase order name is not unique for the ordering agency, the purchase order will not be updated with the new name. Instead, the user will see the Duplicate Purchase Order Name Warning Dialog within the purchase order.

PO Name Detection 3

When a duplicate purchase order name is detected during the renaming of an existing purchase order, the user may:

  • Click View PO to view the purchase order with the matching name. The purchase order will open in a new tab.
  • Repeat the steps to change the name of an existing purchase order and make the name unique.

Activating your purchase order

When the appropriate criteria have been met the Activate Order button will appear and you can proceed with the following:

  1. Click the button Activate Order.
  2. When you activate the order the bibliographic records and copies will be imported into the catalogue using the Vandelay interface, if not previously imported. See How to Load Bibliographic Records and Items into the Catalogue for instructions on using the Vandelay interface.
  3. The funds associated with the purchases will be encumbered.

After you click Activate Order, you will be presented with the record import interface for records that are not already in the catalog. Once you complete entering in the parameters for the record import interface, the progress screen will appear. As of Evergreen 2.9, this progress screen consists of a progress bar in the foreground, and a tally of the following in the background of the bottom-left corner:

  • Lineitems processed
  • Vandelay Records processed
  • Bib Records Merged/Imported
  • ACQ Copies Processed
  • Debits Encumbered
  • Real Copies Processed

Activate Purchase Order without loading items

It is possible to activate a purchase order without loading items. Once the purchase order has been activated without loading items, it is not possible to load the items. This feature should only be used in situations where the copies have already been added to the catalogue, such as:

  • Cleaning up pre-acquisitions backlog
  • Direct purchases that have already been catalogued

To use this feature, click the Activate Without Loading Items button.

Activate Purchase Order with Zero Copies

By default, a purchase order cannot be activated if a line item on the purchase order has zero copies. To activate a purchase order with line items that have zero copies, check the box Allow activation with zero-copy lineitems.

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Line item statuses

The purchase orders interface keeps track of various statuses that your line items might be in. This section lists some of the statuses you might see when looking at purchase orders.

Canceled and Delayed Items

In the purchase order interface, you can easily differentiate between canceled and delayed items. Each label begins with Canceled or Delayed. To view the list, click AdministrationAcquisitions AdministrationCancel Reasons.

The cancel/delay reason label is displayed as the line item status in the list of line items or as the copy status in the list of copies.

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A delayed line item can now be canceled. You can mark a line item as delayed, and if later, the order cannot be filled, you can change the line item’s status to canceled. When delayed line items are canceled, the encumbrances are deleted.

Cancel/delay reasons now appear on the worksheet and the printable purchase order.

Paid PO Line Items

Purchase Order line items are marked as "Paid" in red text when all non-cancelled copies on the line item have been invoiced.

Paid Lineitem