A Standard
Purchase Order is
one time purchasing to buy goods or services.You can create PO when you know
the Item, Price, Delivery schedule and Payment terms
A Blanket
Purchase Agreement it’s
a long time agreement where you don’t know about Quantity, Price and required
Delivery schedule. The Quantity and Price fields will be disabled when you make
Blanket Purchase Agreement. You have to enter a Price. The required Quantity,
Delivery Schedule and final Price will be informed to the Supplier by creating
Blanket Releases against the Blanket Purchase Agreement.
A Planned
Purchase Order it’s
a long time agreement where you are not sure about the required delivery
schedules. You know the details like Item, Price, Delivery Schedule and Payment
Terms. In the Planned purchase order you have to enter a Need-By date, but this
date that you enter will be treated only as a tentative date. The exact date on
which the shipments are to be delivered is informed to the Supplier by creating
Schedule Releases against the Planned purchase order.
A
Contract Purchase Agreement is document which gives standard term and conditions
created. You do not know even the item that is to be purchased. The only
information that you provide in a Contract Purchase Agreement is Supplier,
Supplier Site, Payment Terms and Agreement Control details. Standard Purchase
Orders are created by referring to the Contract Purchase Agreement when something
is to be purchased against this Contract Purchase Agreement.