Customers would like to pay an invoice now for product that will not leave from their supplier for a while.  They don’t want any purchase order items to show up in inventory, or create a payable. Yet they must record the pre-payment which will be “wired” from their bank to the supplier. 

One more reason to upgrade to SYSPRO 6.1: Fewer touch-points for GL transactions.
AR Cash Receipts: Let’s take a case in point: Pre-6.1 AR Cash Receipts in Figure 1. –

Business Perspective:  SYSPRO Cashflow Forecasting enables multiple on-line cash flow models with accurate real-time cashflow requirements projections from a variety of inflow and outflow data.

As you are budgeting this year, consider Budget Maestro for SYSPRO ERP.  There are three reasons to switch off Excel this year for budget management.