There is an interesting setup note if you want to generate Purchase Orders from within Sales Order Entry in Sage 100 version 4.50 (formerly MAS 90/200). On the PO Main menu, the Auto Generate from Sales Orders option contains a Default Settings button, which leads to a page where you set your defaults for generating Purchase Orders from Sales Orders. These default settings are used here, but they ALSO CONTROL the generation of Purchase Orders from within Sales Order Entry. These settings have to do with order-types to include, product-types to include and handling of comments and more settings. Other settings on the Purchase Order Setup Options Generate tab also control how Purchase Orders are created from Sales Orders. They include the option to combine multi-sales orders for a vendor on one P.O. and sales order fields to include, such as ship-to address, ship-via, FOB, etc. So when you start generating Purchase Orders from within Sales Order Entry, be sure to also review your Default-Settings options on the Auto Generate from Sales Orders option on the PO Main menu when you have a problem or wonder about additional features.