Item Buying Detail

Item Buying Detail

This screen (the banner calls it SKU Detail) opens when you click an item's SKU on the PO Workbench. It gathers everything about that one item in one place so you can decide with confidence how much to buy.

What's here

• On-hand, minimum, maximum, how much is already on order, and how much is already sitting on saved buy lists.
• Whether the item is on a Rush order, and how long that rush has been waiting.
• Every open Requirement Order line asking for this item, and how much of it is still open.
• Every open purchase order already bringing this item in — both the ones tied to a Requirement Order and any other open QuickBooks purchase order for the same item.
• Which saved buy lists already have quantity on this item.
• The last five times this item was received, and what it cost each time.
• The Workbench's recommended quantity, cost, vendor, and delivery date for this item.

Making changes

This screen is for looking, not for editing. To change the quantity, cost, vendor, or delivery date before you buy, go back to the PO Workbench and make the change on that item's row there — it will be reflected the next time you open this detail view. The vendor box on this screen is only there so you can check the spelling against the suggestion list; nothing typed in it is saved.

If your access level allows it, the open-demand panel gives you a Set Rush / Clear Rush button per order — that is the one thing you can change from here, and it changes the order's priority, not the buy.

If an item has no open demand and is not below its minimum, this screen will not open for it — it is a drill-down from the Workbench list, not a general item lookup. Use Item Master Display & Maintenance for that.

The receipt list

Last 5 receipts with cost is a stand-in: QuickBooks gives us no receiving feed, so the screen shows the five most recently synced purchase-order lines that show a received quantity, and labels the date as a sync date rather than a real receipt date.

Sorting the list (2026-09-07)

Click any column heading to sort the list by that column; click it again to reverse. Blank cells always fall to the bottom. Numbers sort as numbers and dates as dates. Button and checkbox columns (Actions, Detail) don't sort. The sort works on the rows already on screen, so it never hides anything the page was showing.