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Purchase Order Analysis

Learn about the Purchase Order Analysis Dashboard

Edition: Business + Insights Pro Add-on, Enterprise + Insights Pro Add-on
User-level: Permissions are set at an Organisation level by System Administrators
Who this is for: Finance team, principals, project managers


Dashboard Explained

Purchase order value, reconciliation, and residual by supplier and project, with a full PO list. Purchase Order Analysis shows how much of each purchase order has been reconciled against supplier bills, and how much is still outstanding.

New in Insights Pro: This dashboard did not exist in Analytics Plus.

How to use it

Use Purchase Order Analysis to check which purchase orders are still outstanding against supplier bills. Sort by Residual Ex Tax to prioritise POs where reconciliation is furthest behind. Cross-reference with Bills Analysis using the linked PO/Bill numbers to confirm a purchase order's full billing history.

Understanding your data

Key Fields

How it's Calculated

Purchase Orders | Amount Ex Tax

Total value of purchase orders, excluding tax

Purchase Orders | Amount Inc Tax

Total value of purchase orders, including tax

Purchase Orders | Reconciled Ex Tax

Value of purchase orders reconciled against supplier bills

Purchase Orders | Residual Ex Tax

Purchase order value not yet reconciled against a bill

Purchase Orders | Bill Numbers

Bill number(s) linked to the purchase order

Purchase Orders Amount Ex Tax by Month per PO Status

Purchase order value, split by PO Status, trended monthly

Purchase Orders Amount Ex Tax & Residual by Slice

Purchase order value and residual, broken out by the selected Slice By dimension

PO table

PO Date, PO Delivery Date, PO Number, PO Status, Amount Ex Tax, Amount Inc Tax, Bill Numbers, Reconciled Ex Tax, Residual Ex Tax, Requested By, Supplier Name, Project, Is Sent — one row per purchase order


Visuals

  • Purchase Orders Amount Ex Tax by Month per PO Status (column chart)

  • Purchase Orders Amount Ex Tax & Residual by Slice (bar)

  • PO table (flat list, one row per purchase order)

Filters

  • Office: filter by Project Office

  • Discipline: filter by Stage Discipline

  • Project Manager: filter by Project Manager

  • Project Status: filter by Project Status

  • Project Type: filter by Project Type

  • Cost Centre: filter by Stage Cost Centre

  • Stage Manager: filter by Stage Manager

  • Stage Status: filter by Stage Status

  • Stage Fee Type: filter by Stage Fee Type

  • Project: filter to a specific project

  • Account Manager: filter by Account Manager

  • Project Director: filter by Project Director

  • Primary Contact Name: filter by primary contact

  • Project Salesperson: filter by salesperson

  • Supplier Name: filter by supplier

  • PO Status: filter by purchase order status

  • Slice By: choose the dimension for the aggregated graph visuals

Toggles

  • Which Date: changes which date field the page is calculated against

  • Units / Thousands / Millions: switches the value scale used across the page

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