ASSIGN VENDORS TO ITEMS

Use this screen to specify the preferred vendors from which an item (part, good, or service) can be purchased. Establish items on the Manage Parts, Manage Goods, and Manage Services screens.

You must first establish the vendor on the Manage Vendors screen in Accounts Payable or Purchasing before you can enter any additional information on this screen.

Location

Identification

Item

Enter, or click to select, the item to which you want vendors to be assigned. The description for this item is also displayed in the unlabeled field to the right (after Rev).

Rev

The revision number of the part selected defaults to the latest revision but can be modified.

Item Type

The item type displays identifying this item as a part, good, or service.

Vendor Assignment

Vendor

Enter, or click to select, the vendor from whom you want to purchase this good. Vendor ID codes are established on the Manage Vendors screen. A vendor ID is required if a vendor part number is required.

This untitled field to the right displays the vendor name corresponding to the vendor ID in the Vendor field.

Approved/Preferred

Use this drop-down list to specify whether or not this vendor is approved for this item and also to specify if the vendor is the preferred source of the item. Valid options are:

Only one vendor can be designated as the preferred item source at a time.

Last Purchase Order

PO

This field displays the last purchase order number assigned to this vendor.

Date

This field displays the date of the last purchase order assigned to this vendor in Purchasing.

Last Vendor Quote

Quote

This field displays the last quote identifier assigned to this vendor.

Date

This field displays the date of the last quote identifier assigned to this vendor.