Purchase orders can be grouped together into Purchase Order Sets so that freight and other additional costs can be allocated across multiple purchase orders.

In Sprout, this grouping is called a Purchase Order Set. In some systems or business processes this may also be referred to as an Add-On PO.

A purchase order set often represents a single inbound shipment or truck that contains items from multiple purchase orders.

The initial purchase order for freight or other charges is created like any other purchase order.

When costs such as freight are distributed, they are allocated to the items’ General Ledger accounts or the system’s default GL account based on the selected distribution method.

Purchase Order Sets can distribute costs using one of the following methods:

• Weight
• Pallets
• Items

To use weight or pallet-based distribution, each item in the purchase order set must have weight or pallet information configured in Item Setup.