How to Use purchase order in a Sentence

purchase order

noun
  • That purchase order covered six styles and indicated the unit price for each style.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • At most stores, proof of purchase is required, like your receipt or purchase order number.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The total cost of the purchase order was nearly $62 million.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • At most retailers, proof of purchase is required, like your receipt or purchase order number.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 26 Dec. 2025
  • But during his stay at Kaweah Health, Sierra received his first purchase order.
    — Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Businesses can track every purchase order, invoice and payment.
    — Laurent Charpentier, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In this case the driver of the truck did not have a purchase order to claim the delivery although those papers could have easily been counterfeited.
    — Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The bigger lesson is that retail only works if your product and margin structure are designed for it before the first purchase order arrives.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But the guys down in procurement refused our purchase order for another 379 sweatshirts.
    — Linda Chong, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • The company is currently in the process of fulfilling a purchase order for luggage, marking its transition out of shell status.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Sakai and two commissioners voted to send the purchase order after a motion to table the proposal failed 3-2.
    — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Initially, this product will focus on the purchase order (PO) acceptance process.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no integration project waiting on the other side of the purchase order, no multi-vendor finger-pointing when performance falls short.
    — David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • However, with a procurement team that lacks the knowledge and relationships to move quickly, a purchase order may wait in a much longer queue to be generated and approved.
    — Edmund Zagorin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Much like a new employee, the agent must digest internal data and local rules, such as the threshold for when a purchase order requires managerial approval.
    — Bipul Sinha, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • According to Retraced, manual document checks tied to a single purchase order can take up to 90 minutes.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2026
  • That included a purchase order for 175 corsets which, along with all of the period underpinnings, were made specifically for the show.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2023
  • The system is built into Retraced’s existing purchase order workflow and is already available to the company’s customers.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This purchase order indicates that the hospital and its staff see the value and benefits that LockeT can bring not just to their hospital, but to their patients.
    — Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
  • The process of securing a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on that property has begun.
    — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In a recent interview, Meghan inadvertently referenced a purchase order of one million units for a single product.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • For a purchase order of $14,413, Allvan had to pay $11,977 in tariffs.
    — Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Saks Global moved from four different purchase order and supply chain systems to one over Labor Day weekend in a streamlining effort.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For a purchase order of $14,413, Allvan had to pay $11,977 in tariffs.
    — Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This means that the purchase order might need to be updated, sometimes more than once—resulting in potentially double-digit increases in price, as well as delays in receiving the product.
    — Edmund Zagorin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • If the invoice matches the purchase order, it is posted in SAP, and the payment is made automatically without any paper or human touch.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The firm’s fundraise and purchase order are part of a larger wave of crypto companies raising serious cash to bring zero-knowledge proofs, once only the realm of academic theory, beyond research papers.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 25 July 2023
  • The report states that 4 out of 6 brand employees believe their company expects suppliers to accept purchase order changes as part of normal business operations.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
  • This initial purchase order from UCSD enables product evaluations at the hospital to begin.
    — Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024

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