Purchasing coordination: from requisition to receipt
Coordinate a purchase from start to finish: a clear requisition, the right approval, a complete purchase order, a checked supplier acknowledgement, expediting and change orders, an accurate receipt, and a clean handoff to accounts payable for the three-way match.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Check a requisition and purchase order for the information a supplier and the receiving team need
- Explain why approval limits and segregation of duties exist and recognize order splitting
- Compare a supplier acknowledgement with the PO and act on differences in dates, quantities or prices
- Work backwards from a need date using lead time to decide when an order must be placed
- Identify the three documents in a three-way match and route mismatches to the right owner
- Describe what an Incoterms® 2020 rule does and does not settle, and who to ask about it
Course outline
- 1.Purchasing coordination: from requisition to receiptVideo · 3 min
- 2.From need to purchase orderLesson · 18 min
- 3.After the PO: acknowledgement, expediting and changesLesson · 17 min
- 4.Receipt, three-way match and Incoterms awarenessLesson · 20 min
- 5.Purchasing coordination: from requisition to receipt: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
- 6.The bearings won't arrive in timeScenario
- 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
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