What is a Purchase Order Request?


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depends on who you work for, but typically it's a three page form (carbon copies) that authorizes you to spend money from a specific account that your department or business is in charge of. the purchases are almost always with a third party (i.e. not within your department or company).

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couldn't tell you for sure, but here's a guess.

A POR is the in house form to approve the spending of the funds.

The PO is the actual form sent to the seller.

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Well if its anything like the system we use at work :

Purchase Order Request - You fill in a form with the product you want to buy, contact info for the place you want to buy it on, catalogue / item code, and the price with & without taxes - its then assigned a budget code (which department is billed) and signed off by the budget holder for that department. The form is then processed by our finance department and becomes an official Purchase Order.

The purchase order is basically proof to a company that say my company has pre-entered this purchase onto our finance system, and the unique number on the form you send to them is what they use in reference when billing us.

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Is this correct...

Purchase Order Request

A purchase order request is a form that someone from the finance department fills in, containing the product they want to buy, contact information for the place they want to buy it from, catalogue/item code and the price with and without taxes. It can then (depending on the company) be assigned a budget code, which is eventually signed off by another member of the company and is then processed by the finance department and becomes an official Purchase Order.

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Unless you want to get *really* complicated, King Mustard, your definition sounds pretty gosh darn good/accurate to me.

Sole question would be whether or not a POR actually has to be filled in by someone from the finance dept. Don't know that it's so specific (even if such a request might *eventually* have to pass through finance, generally speaking).

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