Purchase Documents

2026/09/10 • 4 min. to read

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Delivery Type
Purchase Order
Actions
Purchase Quote
Actions
Blanket Purchase Order
Price Comparison - Bidders
Actions

Construction Base extends the standard Business Central purchasing documents (Purchase Order, Purchase Quote, Blanket Purchase Order, Purchase Receipt and the Requisition Worksheet) with a construction-specific Delivery Type and a fast item search called the Basket. It also extends one MEGABAU 365 object, the Price Comparison - Bidders page, with an action to import tenderers from your industry contacts.

Delivery Type

Construction Base adds the field Delivery Type (CBDeliveryTypeNVX) to several standard purchasing tables, so that you can specify how the ordered material is to be delivered.

The following standard tables are extended with the **Delivery Type** field:
Table	Behavior
Purchase Header	When you change Delivery Type on the document header, the value is converted to the underlying MEGABAU field "Delivery Type MaterialMGB" and is copied automatically to all existing purchase lines of type Item on the document.
Purchase Line	When an item is entered in the No. field of a purchase line, the Delivery Type of the purchase header is copied automatically to the line.
Purch. Rcpt. Line	The Delivery Type of the purchase line is carried over to the posted purchase receipt line, so the delivery option remains visible after posting.
Requisition Line	When you change Delivery Type on a requisition line, the value is converted to the underlying MEGABAU field "Delivery TypeMGB" on the line. Note When a requisition line is deleted, Construction Base also resets the MEGABAU "Cancellation Demand Request" flag on the line.

Available Delivery Type values
Value	Meaning
(blank)	No delivery type has been set.
delivery to warehouses	The material is delivered to a warehouse/location.
Direct delivery to customer	The material is delivered directly to the customer, bypassing your own warehouse.
Pick-up	The material is picked up, for example directly at the vendor or the construction site.
Standard warehouse adjustment	The delivery is handled as a standard warehouse receipt/adjustment.

Purchase Order

On the Purchase Order page, Construction Base hides the standard MEGABAU field "Delivery Type MaterialMGB" and shows its own Delivery Type field in the same position instead.

Actions

Basket
On the order lines (Purchase Order Subform), the standard Select Multiple Items action is hidden and replaced by Basket. The Basket opens a full-text search across items (and linked source documents, such as bills of quantities, job expense lines, demand requisition planning lines and production order components) so you can quickly find and add multiple items to the purchase order as new lines.

Purchase Quote

On the Purchase Quote lines (Purchase Quote Subform), the same construction-specific behavior as on the Purchase Order lines is available.

Actions

Basket
As on the Purchase Order Subform, the standard Select Multiple Items action is hidden and replaced by Basket, which opens the same full-text item search to quickly add multiple items to the quote.

Blanket Purchase Order

On the Blanket Purchase Order page, the following fields are added to the Invoice Details section, so the job assignment and delivery option are visible without switching pages:

Field	Description
Job No.	The MEGABAU "Job No." field of the document, showing the job the blanket order is assigned to.
Job Task No.	The MEGABAU "Job Task No." field of the document.
Order No.	The MEGABAU "Order No." field of the document.
Delivery Type	The Construction Base Delivery Type field described above.

Price Comparison - Bidders

Important

The Price Comparison - Bidders page is part of MEGABAU 365; Construction Base only adds the action described below to it.

The Price Comparison feature lets you compare quotes ("bids") from several vendors for the same purchase document. Construction Base adds an action that speeds up entering the list of bidders (tenderers) for a price comparison.

Actions

Import tenderers
Opens a lookup of your industry contacts (Industry Group Contacts), filtered to the industry group assigned to the purchase document. Select one or more contacts to add them as bidders (tenderers) to the price comparison, instead of entering them manually.