Acquisitions Terms

Before using the Acquisitions/Serials link, you need to understand these Acquisitionsspecific terms:

Purchase order (PO). A paper or electronic order you send to a vendor to acquire new material. A purchase order consists of a “header” and “body.” The header contains information that applies to all the titles on the purchase order, such as vendor and total amount. The body consists of the individual lines or titles included in the purchase order.
Purchase order line. A line on a purchase order that represents one title.
Purchase order line item. A purchase order line item represents a single unit of the purchase order line. (For Serials, the purchase order line represents a subscription period.) Copy records are generated from this item level in Acquisitions or linked to this item level from Serials. Each purchase order line may have multiple items.
Receipt. A purchase order line item with a status of “Received.”
Begin/End dates. The beginning and ending dates of the subscription period for the copy record attached to the purchase order line item.
Candidate. A purchase order line item that is already attached to a purchase order line with the same bib number and location as the copy record’s bib number and location.
Purchase order line activity. An action performed on a purchase order line item, such as ordering (printed or electronic), receiving an item, claiming an item, creating a voucher, and so forth.

 


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