For Vendors who are Owners of the Inventory and are renting storage, you can mark a purchase order as an Order Type of Receiving. This type of purchase is not sent to accounting when confirmed and can be confirmed without a price set for the inventory items.
Receiving type purchase order setup
In Master Data/Owners, all Owners for which you will be creating Receiving Orders should be setup. .
An Order number series for Receiving should be created in Configuration/Orders/Number Series.
The Configuration option - Configuration/Orders/Setup - Show Owner on PO and SO in P & S - must be set to ON in order for this Order Type to be available.
Creating a Receiving Type purchase order
Create a new Purchase Order for the Owner and choose a Type of Receiving in the Purchase Order creation pop-up.
Assign the Owner on the General tab of the Order.
Register the inventory.
You need not but can add a price to the order.
When the order is confirmed and posted, it will be available in the purchase order list but it will not be invoiced and sent to accounting.