Purchasing Analysis report
The Purchasing Analysis report is useful for examining your inventory in terms of what has been purchased. It offers a number of criteria that you can use to limit the data in the report to any combination of items, suppliers, and product lines.
In addition, you can further limit this data by specifying a combination of transaction status, type, and class. Finally, you can display a report where that data is grouped together in a way that's most useful to you, and then examine that grouped data by a combination of orders, items or totals only, and then show more or less detail for each line of data.
Purchasers use this report to see what has been purchased. The report displays what's still open, draft, closed, and converted.
To access this report:
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Go to Purchasing > All > Reports and select Purchasing analysis.
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| Permissions | Purchasing analysis: Run |
View a monthly report
- On the report settings page, select View.
The report displays all results for the default reporting period.
- To refine the report, select Customize.
Customize and run
Before running the report, you can select the time period and types of items to include as well as specify how you want the report to appear.
- Select the reporting period from the dropdown menu, or enter the start and end dates you want the report to cover. If you do not specify a reporting period, the system generates a
report for the current month to date.
- You can specify either the reporting period or the start and end dates, but not both.
- Set the filters to get the specific data you want.
- Filters enable you to include or exclude specific types of data in the report, such as customer, item, UPC, value, or account. As a general rule, to get fewer and more precise results in your report, set more filters.
- Format the report.
- Format options will vary from report to report. Generally, you can set the layout of the report and arrange how to group and display the data contained in the report.
- Enter a title, subtitle, and footer text for your report.
- To view, process, memorize, or export the report or add it to the dashboard, select one of the following:
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View the report now, in your browser. |
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Display the report now, in printable PDF format. |
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Generate the report and store it for later access. Reports can be either stored in My Stored Reports or delivered to a cloud storage location, such as Dropbox. Learn more about processing and storing reports. |
Process & store |
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Add the report to your dashboard |
Add to dashboard |
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Memorize (that is, save) the report so that later you can refer back to it or modify and re-run it. |
Memorize |
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Export the report to a separate file that you can then distribute or save to your local drive. File formats to which you can export the report data vary among reports. |
Export |
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Return to the main report page and refine the report further. |
Customize |
Time period
You can use one of the numerous pre-defined reporting periods available from the Reporting period and As of date fields, or create your own reporting period using the Start date and End date fields.
In the Time period section, do one of the following:
- Use the Reporting period dropdown list to select the reporting period. Either enter a date in the As of date field or use the calendar tool to select a date.
- Enter a specific Start date, End date, or both. Alternatively, use the calendar tool to select the desired dates.
If you complete all the time period fields (that is, if you fill in the Reporting period, As of date, Start date, and End date fields), Sage Intacct generates your report based on the start and end dates. It ignores the As of date.
The following table describes the fields in the Time period section.
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Reporting period |
These periods are relative to the As of date. All periods begin on the first day of the period, such as the first day of the month, quarter, or year that you select. |
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As of date |
The date that Intacct will use as a baseline for the reporting period you select. Defaults to today's date. |
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Start date |
Leave the Start date blank to include all information from the earliest date of your Intacct data up to and including the end date. |
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End date |
Leave the End date blank to include all information from the start date up to today. |
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Prompt on run |
Select this checkbox to force Intacct to wait for you (or anyone using this report) to enter a location, department, and/or time period before it will run the report. |
Report filters
Use the filters to focus the results of your report. In effect, filters enable you to isolate and assemble just the data you want. You can set any combination of filters.
- You can track items either by Item ID or by UPC code. To track items by Item ID:
- For the Report on option, select Item ID, and then use either the From item and To item dropdown lists or the Operator and Value fields to specify the items to include in your report.
The Operator and Value fields help you filter on specific items. For example, if you want a report on an item with the ID 879HGT453, but you remember only part of the ID, such as the HGT characters, you can select Contains from the Operator dropdown, and then enter HGT in the Value field, and select View. The system finds and displays all items where the Item ID contains the character string "HGT". If you select Includes or Excludes from the dropdown, the Value field can contain a list of values separated by commas. - To track items by UPC code:
- Select UPC as the Report on option, and then use either the From UPC and To UPC dropdown lists or the Operator and Value fields to specify the items to include in your report.
- To limit the report results to a specific line, select the product line from the Product line dropdown list.
- To limit the report results based on the status of transactions, select the status from the Transaction status dropdown list:
- All (this is the default setting)
- Draft orders
- Posted open orders
- Closed orders
- Converted orders
- To limit the report results based on one or more transaction types. select any type from the left box and move it to the right box. To multi-select transaction types, hold down the Ctrl key and select required types.
This list is variable and depends on the document types your company has created. If your company has not modified the default set of transaction types, this list includes transaction types, such as Receipt, Receipt invoice, Purchase order, Purchase requisition, and PO purchase invoice.
If you leave this field clear, all document types are included in the filter criteria.
- To limit the report results based on the template used to create transaction, select the template from the Transaction class dropdown.
- Show the controls what type of transaction data, if any, is displayed within the grouping. Your choices are Orders, Items, or None.
For example, say you chose Supplier - Product line for Report groupings. The report is organized first by vendor and then by product line for each vendor. You can then use the Show the list to select whether the Orders or Items for this vendor are displayed as the data in the resulting report. If you select None, the report displays no data. This version is a very compact report that shows only the product line totals for each supplier, and is useful if you need big-picture numbers without the actual transactions. If you plan to use the Detail level, don't choose None here. - Select the Exclude back orders checkbox if you don't want to include back orders in this report.
When you create a transaction, the system usually sets the state to Pending. For example, when you create a Purchase Order, its state might be set to pending. Later, when you receive shipment and convert the purchase order to a receipt, the system automatically changes the status of the Purchase Order to Converted. Thus, you can view all transactions or only transactions that are open, closed, or converted into another document type as part of the workflow cycle.
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Report on |
Enables you to list items in your report by either Item ID or UPC code. |
All items have IDs, but not all items have UPC codes. |
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From item, To item |
Enables you to get data only for a specific item or range of items, such as items from A to F, or item numbers 3100 to 5000. |
You can enter data in these fields or the From UPC and To UPC fields, but not both. |
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Operator, Value |
Enables you to filter your list by using an operator. After selecting an operator, enter an applicable value in the Value value. |
You can enter data in these fields or the From item and To item fields, but not both. |
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From UPC, To UPC |
Enables you to get data only for a specific UPC code or range of UPC codes. |
You can enter data in these fields or the From item and To item fields, but not both. |
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Operator, Value |
Enables you to filer your list by using an operator. After selecting an operator, enter an applicable value in the Value value. |
You can enter data in these fields or the From UPC and To UPC fields, but not both. |
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Product line |
Use to show results only for a specific product line. |
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Transaction status |
Enables you to get data only for transactions in a specific state. |
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Transaction type |
Enables you to limit your report to
If you leave this field empty, the default is all transaction types. |
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Transaction class |
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From supplier, To supplier |
Enables you to get data only for a specific supplier or range of suppliers. |
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Show the |
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Exclude back orders |
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Item type
To filter by type of item, select the appropriate checkbox. Choose from:
- Inventory
- Non-inventory
- Non-inventory (purchase only)
- Stockable kit
Location and department filters
- To filter the report by geographic location, select the location from the Location dropdown list.
Enter or select a location to run this report at the top level. The system uses the location that you specify to determine the appropriate currency.
- To filter the report by department, select the department from the Department dropdown list.
- If you want the report to cover certain locations regardless of what you select in the Location dropdown list, use the Show for dropdown list to select the locations you want the report to cover:
- All Locations: Include data for all locations regardless of the entity you're currently using.
- This Location: Include data only for the entity that you're currently using.
- Child Locations: Include data only for the locations that are child locations of your current entity. For example, if your current entity is California, and you have child locations for San Francisco and Los Angeles, use this option to have the report include data only for Los Angeles and California.
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Location |
Use to limit report results to a specific location. |
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Department |
Use to limit report results to a specific department. |
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Prompt on run |
Select this checkbox to force the system to wait for you (or anyone using this report) to enter a location or department before it runs the report. |
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Show for |
Select to show different views of the data, based on the location or entity you choose: All locations: This option shows the data that's posted to the location or entity and its children. This location: This option shows only the data that's posted to the location or entity you select. The data posted to any child location is not shown. Child locations: This option shows only the data that's posted to the child locations of the location or entity that you select. Any data that's posted to the parent location or entity is not shown. Example: Suppose your location is United States > California > San Francisco. All locations would show transactions for United States, California, and San Francisco. This location would show transactions for United States. Child locations would show transactions for California and San Francisco only. |
Formatting
Use the options in this section to select some of the report details to display and to order the report results.
- To format the report by a particular group, select the report group from the Report groupings dropdown list. Choose from:
- Supplier
- Supplier - Product line
- Product line
- Product line - Supplier
- Supplier tabular
- To select the level of detail, select either Summary or Detail from the Detail level dropdown list.
- To include departments in the report, select the Show departments checkbox.
- To include locations in the report, select the Show locations checkbox.
Supplier tabular organizes the report in a "flat-file" fashion without groupings. In other words, all the line items are at the same level. This option is most useful if you are exporting to a spreadsheet program.
Summary includes the warehouse in which the item is located, Order or Item (whichever you selected in the Show the dropdown list), the date of the transactions, the state or status of a stage of the transaction in the workflow process, and the amount of the transaction. Detail includes the Item ID and description, warehouse in which the item is stored, the unit of measure, quantity, and price.
Titles and footer
Titles, subtitles, and footers apply only to the print versions of this report. Export to Excel or CSV, or select Print for a PDF version.
- Enter the title in the Report title 1 field.
- This title displays in large type at the top of the page, directly under your company name.
- You can type over any default name that Sage Intacct might have populated in this field.
- Enter the subtitle in the Report title 2 field.
- The subtitle displays in smaller type, directly beneath the main title.
- Enter the footer text in the Footer text field. Footer text displays at the bottom center of the report.