Couldn’t they create the employees as customers with a specific customer price class where those items are priced as zero (if employees get these “requisitions” for free)?  They could also grant them access to the Customer Portal where they could order these “requisition” items?

They are not using Sales Orders but it’s an interesting idea.  Plus the items ARE costed to the department.  I’ve not seen the Customer Portal application so I can’t comment. 

Once an ‘order’ has been created they could use the shipping processes to finish the task.

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@DavidEichner - Thank you for your generous sharing of your time.  I think Sales Order Processing will work with a couple of customizations about sell price = 0 and cost flowing to the ordering department.

Your comments got me going in an enthusiastic direction.

Hi we want to do the same, do you you have a good workflow?

We are not using Workflow.  We have users entering their orders directly into an SA type order we created call MR.  They pick what they want and enter the quantity and Save.  The inventory is allocated as it is selected so the quantities cannot be oversold.

Then we use a schedule (every hour) to create shipments for all the MR orders.

Then the Stores Manager prints pick lists, picks the product, and confirms the shipment.

After that the records sit in Shipped status until 6 p.m. when three other schedules fire off.

The three schedules do the remaining three steps of the process:

    Prepare the invoice / Release the Invoice / Post the Invoice (This may not be totally accurate but it’s close to what I mean.

The records all end up Completed with a zero amount due in the Customer Record and an inventory transaction that reduces the inventory and posts the costs into the GL.

Does that help?  It took a while to develop this :-)

Mike