Contractor POs into sales orders, with the footage, suffixes and fixture types right.

A PO comes in from a contractor's purchasing desk or a foreman's phone. Someone finds the job, turns each line into your item, decides between a cut and a full reel, looks up what each fixture type on the schedule really is, adds the reel deposits and cut charges, and keys it.

For the test, AI does the same from copies and drafts the whole order: job account, items, footage, the extra charge lines, and the quote or special pricing reference the PO names. Any line it can't settle is held for your salesperson with the reason. Nothing is entered anywhere.

Wire by the foot, cut or on the reel. A line like 2,500 feet of #12 THHN in black says nothing about how it ships. Your team decides between a full reel and a cut from stock, and whether several conductors go on one reel for a single pull, which the mills call paralleling. Mills price that work separately: Cerrowire's published charges for special cuts and paralleling are per leg, with an added charge under 250 feet and no cuts under 50 feet. Your own cut charges follow your rules, and the draft adds them where your team would.

Reels are billed apart from the wire. International Wire Group's terms bill reel deposits separately on each invoice, outside the wire's unit price, and credit them when a reel comes back in good condition within twelve months. Okonite separates returnable reel deposits on wood and fluted steel reels from non-returnable reel charges on rubber and plastic cables. So the draft carries the reel line your team would add: a deposit on a reel that comes back, a charge or nothing on one that stays with the contractor.

A suffix changes the product. QO120 is a standard one-pole, 20-amp Square D breaker. QO120PCAFI is a combination arc-fault breaker with a plug-on neutral, and QO120GFICP is a ground-fault breaker with a pigtail neutral. Fittings work the same way: Iberville's catalog lists each EMT set-screw fitting in a regular and an insulated (-IT) version, with a separate wet-location fitting listed raintight. When a PO says only 3/4 EMT connector, the draft follows what your team usually picks for that contractor, and holds the line when there is no pattern.

Fixtures arrive as a type letter. Contractors order lighting the way the drawings name it: 48 of Type A2, per the schedule. The schedule and the approved submittal turn that letter into a full catalog number. On Current Lighting's Montage recessed multiples sheet, that number is built from fourteen ordering fields, voltage, lumens, CCT, dimming, mounting, finish and diffuser among them, and the sheet warns that the fixture and its rough-in kit must both be ordered. The draft builds the number from the submittal you send, adds the second line, and holds any type it can't find.

The right job, and the price it rides on. A PO names a job, and the order belongs on that job's account, not the contractor's main account. Job accounts carry what your credit team needs for notices: Regency Supply's preliminary notice form asks for the job number, job site address, property owner, general contractor or sub, surety and bond number, and in California the lender. When a PO says per quote or cites special pricing, that reference goes on the line, because a claim starts from it later; in Infor's SX.e, the claim number is looked up from the order line itself.

With a yes from your reviewer against the success criteria, the job runs on incoming POs for about 30 days.

Each draft order waits for a person to approve it before your ERP sees it, and no reel is cut on a draft alone.

That live run carries a fixed price agreed before you sign. Any next job is priced separately.