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New Buy Need (Procurement)
The sum of local and all descendant’s New Buy Need (Local) at a procurement location. This is aggregated only at a procurement location. The IO_NEW_BUY_PROC_EFFOQ_THRESHOLD global setting determines when a purchase order is triggered.
When set to true the New Buy Need (Procurement) value is compared to the Effective Order Quantity to trigger a purchase order
When set to false the purchase order is always triggered when there is new buy need
Comparison fields 
For comparison fields, there are three values shown per field:
(A) — The value from the first scenario selection
(B) — The value from the compare scenario selection
(Delta) — The difference between the two selections
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