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Quantum VS Help: File Maintenance |
Supplier Pricing records are used for recording and applying the buying costs/terms a Supplier charges for a product or group of products. If the Supplier offers discounts based on ordering a certain quantity, weight or value of the product you may define a breaks table to record the discounts available.
The standard method of recording a product's buying costs - how much a Supplier charges when you order that Product - is via the Buying Details tab of the Product record. Here you may record these details for a defined Main Supplier, plus (optionally) up to two Alternative Suppliers. See Entering Buying Details.
Supplier Pricing records offer the following advantages over this method:
They allow for the recording and maintenance of buying costs/terms for any number of Product/Supplier combinations - you are not limited to three Suppliers per Product.
You may choose to apply buying costs/terms to a group of products - such as a Product Group or Price Group - rather than a single Product.
You may record any discounts a Supplier offers for ordering a certain quantity, weight or value of a product by defining a breaks table.
You stock the product Bosch Power Drill 14V. In its Product record you have defined the buying costs for the Main Supplier and two Alternative Suppliers.
However, the Bosch Power Drill 14V is available from a whole range of suppliers you deal with, who offer the product at different prices. Some of these suppliers offer discounts when you order a certain number of items from them.
The solution is to create a Supplier Pricing record for each supplier selling the Bosch Power Drill 14V, specifying the base cost plus any additional discounts offered. You may also set up a breaks table corresponding to discounts offered by the supplier when you buy a certain quantity, value or weight of the product.
Thus, when you order the product from this supplier, the buying cost on the Purchase Order takes into account the supplier's buying terms and additional break discounts based on the quantity (or value or weight) ordered.
Certain features in Quantum VS must be configured to set up Supplier Pricing:
The following Optional Enhancement must be switched ON:
Price Book 717: Supplier Pricing.
When this Optional Enhancement is switched on:
1. Supplier Pricing becomes available in:
the Finder (see Finding Supplier Pricing Records); and
menus for creating a new document (see Creating A Supplier Pricing Record).
2. In the Product record > Buying Details tab:
The fields for maintaining the product's buying cost for a Main Supplier and two alternative suppliers - are removed. And:
A new Finder becomes available, enabling the user to view all Supplier Pricing records associated with this product.
See Buying Details Tab: Viewing Product Buying Details.
This section covers:
Note: Saved Supplier Pricing records will display in the Finder. See Finding Supplier Pricing Records.