| Context specific definition |
The total monetary amount of the Purchase Order excluding all Taxes. This field is needed to allow effective purchase order and invoice total value reconciliation. It is a business process in Australian Hardware industry for the receiver of the invoice to initially check the total value of the invoice vs. the purchase order originally placed. In a retail store environment, manual calculation of purchase order total value is not feasible for store conducting this reconciliation.
The presence of this field will also enable matching of the value of this purchase order with subsequent messages including the invoice by both the sender and the receiver. |