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purchase order tracking software

Erin Rothman
July 30, 2018

Hi everyone! We are doing our first big hardware build and realized the need to track/issue/approve purchase orders. We're suing Jira & Confluence for the rest of our PM and thought this could apply, but I'm not sure if it works or where to look or how to get started. Suggestions would be very much appreciated!!

Thank you!


Erin

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Aron Gombas _Midori_
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August 1, 2018

Table Grid Editor excels in managing structured multi-value data in a custom field, like the line items of a purchase order.

Then PDF View Plugin can generate ready-made purchase order documents from any Jira data, including the Table Grid fields.

This is a combo you should definitely try. See this section for starting point.

jira-table-grid-editor-fields-single-issue

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Deleted user
July 30, 2018

Hi @Erin Rothman,

My suggestion would be to track purchase orders through Jira using a separate Jira Project with a custom Issue Type. The issue type itself can be set up with custom fields that are applicable to creating and add purchase orders into the project for relevance and ease of tracking.

Once you have project and issue type that is set up, you can move onto documenting your workflow for your purchase orders. Getting the right people involved at the right time throughout the purchase order's life-cycle, even for approvals. 

I would suggest investigating the the Jira add-on Xporter, you can make beautiful templates using the add-on. Once your templates are created any purchase order can be converted from a Jira Issue to a PDF for distribution. 

Reporting on the progress of your purchase orders can be done in Jira, however you can set up Confluence pages with issue filters so stakeholders within the project can get the information they need easily and quickly. 

Hope this helps

Erin Rothman
July 30, 2018

This is great @[deleted]! Thank you!

Deleted user
July 30, 2018

Happy to help you get set up if you ever need assistance. 

Just glad I could help.

Wouter Bruinings
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July 30, 2018

Hi @Erin Rothman

In addition to what Danny wrote :-)

Here is an example of someone using JIRA to track his beer inventory:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/JIRA-As-a-Beer-Inventory-System/ba-p/458288

Additionally the documentation by Atlassian is also very helpful: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracorecloud/see-what-s-possible-with-jira-core-765593060.html

It is very easy to overcomplicate your processes. A main pitfall is to capture every single little detail as a status in the workflow. Therefor I would advise to keep  your workflows simple and lean, so they are easy and intuitive for the user. 

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Erin Rothman
July 30, 2018

@Wouter Bruinings this is wonderful! Thank you so much!

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Deleted user
July 30, 2018

Hi Erin,

I'm not sure if this would meet your use case, but we use the Insight add-on for Jira to manage Asset Storage, which could be set up to track Purchase Orders.

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Vladimir Horev - RaleyApps
Atlassian Partner
November 26, 2020

Hi Erin,

 

We've recently released Raley Purchase Orders app which is based on cloud Jira and let you submit Purchase Orders, turn them into Purchasing Requests and have full reporting per budget(s). 

Give it a try and let us know how we could make it even better!

Cheers,

Vladimir

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