Not sure if anyone else has the issue but we use the PO system to accurately input inventory so COGS tracks properly and, if needed, adjustments are easy to be made. We also ensure that our POs match our invoices, so I want a PO for each invoice that has items that are included in inventory.
PO's do not currently permit partial items, so if you purchase by weight, there is no way to enter it properly into the system. You either have an incorrect weight, or an incorrect price. For instance 23.56kg of something I purchase for $40.35/kg. You can't use grams as you can only enter $0.04/g (incorrect), and then you have the issue on the selling side as well. Alternately, if you want to enter KG you can only enter 23 or 24, neither is correct. And it makes a huge difference if your price per KG is high.
Our workaround, to insure I have a PO to match to my invoice is to enter a $0 purchase order for the item, with the proper vendor, and then in the Notes section to enter the price and amount and a note that we manually entered the item using the "received stock" in the inventory system itself. In the inventory itself, you are able to enter partial units, so it's accurate. So for those of you that like to keep tidy accounting records and matched PO's and invoices, this is the current workaround until they FIX the PO system to appropriately correspond to the invoicing system.
