Tuesday, 7 March 2017

LOCAL PURCHASE ORDER (LPO) - IMPORTANCE & MEANING




LPO stands for local purchase order . it is a contractual document where both supplier and customer agreed about the quantity ,quality ,time of delivery , mode of payment, name of goods, conditions for issuance of  Bank guarantee, security cheque  etc..

Both the parties of the contract agreed and signed on the LPO and  based on these condition , they do the delivery of  goods and it’s payment.

Before preparing LPO, the supplier and customers will make a discussion regarding the  price ,quality , payment term , delivery term ect .. In short both the parties will make a detailed discussion regarding all aspects of that transaction. Once they agreed after negotiation, then the customer prepare  a LPO and after their signature  they handed over this LPO to the supplier for their approval and signature. LPO is valid only when both parties of the contract agreed and signed .

When a company having any requirement of any goods , then such company accepting quotations from various suppliers and after analyzing each quotations, the company will select some companies for negotiation and after the negotiation the company will fix the supplier of that goods.

Accepting Quotation from suppliers, Negotiations with suppliers, selection of suppliers, fixing prices, fixing payment term, preparation of  LPO, get approval of LPO etc.. are some of the common  duties of purchase and procurement Department. Out of these duties , negotiation with suppliers is the most important duty of procurement department because all the terms are discussed.


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