Then, the invoice is matched against the receiving report data to determine that the items and quantities have been received.
(8. Rather than flows the purchasing process, the PO accounts payable notification data and receiving data are probably obtained from the PO master data and the purchase receipts data that were updated as Pos were created and goods received. See Figure 13.5 (pg. 480) for an example of how the receipts data is “attached” to the PO. )
These line-by-line comparisons among the vendor invoice, PO (PO accounts payable notification), and receiving report are known as a three-way match, an important control in the AP process by which data from the purchasing process is used to authorize the recording of the invoice.