A blanket purchase order is a long-term agreement between a buyer and a single supplier for repeated purchases over a specified time period. The exact quantities and delivery dates are not set up front, but are instead fulfilled with releases against the master agreement as needed. This process streamlines procurement, saving time and administrative costs by eliminating the need to create new individual purchase orders for frequent recurring purchases. Syspro supports the use of blanket purchase orders, so let's take a look at some of the key features. First, you will need to establish a contract for this purchasing agreement. You key in a contract number associating the supplier. The supplier information will be populated from the supplier master file. The header information can include a customer detail, if this contract is associated with a customer as well as a customer purchase order. The type of contract can be defined by selecting one of these options. Call-off single option is used to create a single order with detail lines reflecting the different required receipt dates. This option is most effective when used with a contract that contains only one stocked item and is scheduled via requirements planning. A schedule is created automatically. The call-off multiple option can be used to create call-off orders requested, either by a number of orders to be created or orders to be created up to a specified date. Each order is created with an expected due date or receipt date for all lines on the order. The standing order option means that the purchase order is not required to be created until the goods are received in. You can create one or more orders and optionally have a schedule associated with it. The monitoring order option provides the use of this order for simple monitoring of supplier's delivery performance. The basis for delivery schedule. The delivery basis can be based on a date range or a number of delivery days. So on a date range, you would select a start date and an end date for deliveries. On a number of delivery days, you would define how many days you record a delivery and then the intervals. If I were to do weeks, how many weeks apart and what day of the week would I require? The contract options viewed here. You could define whether or not it's a fixed contract, meaning the MRP will not reschedule. Or you could define a firm period within MRP, where moving of dates will not be allowed. Then of course entering or capturing the delivery address as well. Then we go ahead and add a contract. Add the contract line, the item you wish to purchase, the quantity of the item, the price associated with it, and any discounts that may apply. And we will save those details. The next step is going to be creating that purchase order release from the contract. Here we will grab a contract. Select the contract here. Now we will release the details of the contract. This will create the PO. We can view or query contracts and any activities or transactions associated with the contracts as well. Here we will pull up a contract. On the left hand side you are going to see the contract details and the type of contract etc. Have the delivery address available as well and any associated notes or the detail supplier information is visible as well as your address. To the right you are going to see the contract details that include the item that's being purchased The total contract quantity of each item. The minimum release quantity of each item. The quantity that is being received and the last receipt date. Tracking those releases from the contract and visibility to all that activity is done through the Blanket Purchase Order Query. Last but not least, we will take a look at the Blanket Purchase Order Review Program. This program is run from within MRP. Similar to a Purchase Order Review or a Job Review. Whereas the MRP calculation suggests a release from the blanket PO based on demand or a release schedule. You can filter by these various options here by supplier, contract, item or stock code, warehouse, product class, buyers or planners. Once the MRP calculation has ran, the review will suggest the of those releases or any actions required against that blanket purchase order. Those are the main tools associated with blanket purchase order management within Syspro.