Requisitions
RX Document
Advantage Financial System
Requisitions
Requisitions are requests for goods or services that are not available on-campus or
are not allowed on a PV document
Sent to buyers in Purchasing who place the order with the off-campus vendor
Used for high dollar totals and certain categories of goods and services
Requisitions
The RX document consist of several sections:
Header
Accounting Details
Commodity Details
Freight
Additional Description
Commodity Lines
RX: Header
Other Attributes contains information about the overall order:
Vendor code
Delivery information
User contact information
Responsible agency/org
RX: Accounting Details
Accounting Details contains information about the accounts and object codes:
Line number
Agency/org
Object/subobject
Function (optional)
RX: Commodity Details
Commodity Details contains information about the goods or services being ordered:
Line number
Commodity code
Unit of measure
Accounting line
Description
Quantity
Unit cost
RX: Additional Description/ Commodity Line
Additional Description allows a description in addition to the ones entered per line
Commodity Line displays the number of commodity lines per RX document
RX Approvals
RX Documents require Level 1 approval applied by the requesting department
A Buyer in Purchasing reviews the RX and contacts the vendor as needed
The Buyer will create a PC (Purchase Order) to send to the vendor
RX Document
Create a new RX document using the automatic document numbering
EX: RX TR1 TR1#
RX WV5
WV5#
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the anticipated delivery date of the goods
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the vendor code including address indicator, if applicable
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the agency/org to be charged for the goods or services
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter “Blanket” if the RX is for a blanket order. Otherwise, leave blank
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter “REC” for Receiving then “AP” for Accounts Payable
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the mail code, building, and room number where goods
will be delivered
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the 4-character Advantage ID and name of the person
completing the document
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the name of the person requesting the goods or services
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter full phone number including area code of the requestor
RX: Freight
If the goods are subject to freight charges, they must be entered on the RX
Freight charges are applied by line so they are allocated across the order
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Freight
Enter “D” in Freight Indicator to designate freight by line
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Freight
Enter the total amount of freight charges for the order
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Freight
Enter the total amount of all commodity lines before tax and freight
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter a line number to distinguish from other accounting lines,
starting with “01”
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the agency/org including suborg, if applicable, to be charged
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Header and Accounting Details
Enter the function code, if applicable