Material Management in Utilities

Purchase requisitions are used to order materials of all kinds and to allow the approvals for buying those goods to be accepted or denied prior to the creation of a purchase order. Purchase orders leave the company and are sent out to vendors. As for purchase requisitions, they remain within the company for adjustments, changes or approvals thus allowing all of company division employees to order materials within checks in place before being sent out to vendors. Several account assignment categories could be used in creating requisitions. A requisition could be created with services that have to be performed in purchase orders or with a dollar amount limit that could be spent against a blanket purchase order. Users navigate to different screens within the process to view and enter required information to create a requisition. Dynamic structure of the transaction makes navigation harder.

The GuiXT Solution Suite is implemented to create a standard layout for requisitioners to create, change and display requisitions. It enables users to identify the errors and the modifications for the material they do the modifications for explicitly. The GuiXT Solution creates more comprehensible screens with comments, icons and explanatory texts created for process elements such as account assignment or item category which are not clearly stated as to what they represent in native process. In addition, creating requisitions is streamlined by automating user entries in different screens thus increasing the efficiency.