7 posts tagged “Procurement”
The buyer desk has its own Tier 0. Here is the BUYER_HOME starter pack for MAS 9 Manage: seven work-queue result sets and five KPIs, eighteen copy/paste saved queries scoped by buyer code, inbox hygiene with bulk approve and delegation, and the stale-PR, open-PO, and orphan-line cleanup that clears a migration mess in an afternoon.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 6 of 10
This is the net-new material most buyers never had out of the box: an escalation engine that chases late vendors for you on a 3/7/14/30-day ladder, a 'My Late Orders' portlet, and a match-pay flow that auto-approves clean invoices and triages only the exceptions through Buyer, AP, and Procurement Manager. No custom code — just Escalations, Comm Templates, and SQL conditions.
Venkat Achanta
Cycle time from an approved requisition to an issued purchase order is the buyer's number-one metric. In MAS 9 Manage the conversion is a one-click Create Purchase Order action, desktop requisitions push intake upstream to the person who knows what they need, and a thresholded approval workflow routes by dollar value without approver-shopping. Here is the whole PR-to-PO flow, click by click.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 7 of 10
A ten-part role-and-task playbook for the two people who run supply chain in MAS 9 Manage: the storekeeper and the buyer. Not a feature tour — a Day-1 field guide of Start Center recipes, saved queries, receiving and counting rhythms, reservation hygiene, PR-to-PO conversion, RFQ discipline, vendor escalation, and the full procure-to-pay lifecycle, grounded in how MAS 9.0 and 9.1 actually behave.
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 0 of 10
Sourcing is where discipline pays for itself. In MAS 9 Manage, run a 3-bid RFQ without the pain using templates, buy on the right contract across the nine OOB contract types, pull terms from a legal-approved library instead of retyping, and score vendors on real data so 'they feel unreliable' becomes 'they were 82% on-time in Q3.'
Venkat AchantaJul 16, 2026Part 8 of 10
A practitioner's deep dive into inventory and procurement in Maximo Manage 9 — the ITEM and INVENTORY objects, storerooms, costing, reorder processing, the PR-to-PO-to-receipt-to-invoice flow, contracts and vendors, and the role-based Issues and Transfers app that carries forward key Inventory Work Center workflows.
Every detail of MAS 9 procurement (Desktop Requisitions, PRs, POs, RFQs), all 10 contract types, receiving and inspection workflows, specialized inventory (rotating assets, condition-enabled, consignment, service items), cost accounting methods, lead time calculation, item status lifecycle, reorder processing, and the RBA gap that still forces classic apps.
Posam LakshminarayanaMar 17, 2026Part 22 of 25