Europe-wide ordering for a commercial enterprise

Purchase orders are generated from freely editable templates. The templates define order and delivery times, as well as the allocation of suppliers and items. Additional restrictions can be defined at all levels and compliance with these restrictions is monitored. All parameters from the template can be modified in the purchase order that is generated. Historical sale data and stocks are imported from an external system during runtime. This data is displayed to the scheduler during the order process to support the scheduler and it is used to automatically propose order quantities. The proposed quantities are determined from the stocks and the desired range, taking account of restrictions from the various levels of the purchase order. Order quantities are transferred to the higher-level and operational systems for triggering purchase orders or for warehouse management.