Thank you for your detailed reply. I suspected this was the workflow.

The problem I am running into is if I try to create POs from a Sales Order, it wants us to create a PO for one of our assembly items. However, we are a "Just In Time" manufacturer, so we have to order the inventory parts at this point. Is there a way to do this from the Sales Order?

I'm finding I have to jump over to Build Assemblies, try to build something with out stick, click on pending, then make the auto POs from there.

THEN, because we purchase them with a credit card, we have to bill it to a prepay expense account, then when we receive the inventory, make a negative number in the prepay account to set it to 0. This seems REALLY convoluted. Plus, we have a different person receiving the inventory, so how do they know what dollar amount to put in as a negative against the pre-pay account. What if the bill amount is different than the PO amount because of a price increase or shipping? The PO auto generates from the numbers we have for each item in the system, but could be different than the bill. The person receiving the inventory has no way of knowing this and we can end up with money left over in this Pre-pay account?