Setup Two Vendors of Truckload
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Sometimes it is useful to set up 2 vendors for a particular product line for the purposes of keeping billing, and costs, separate.  The classic example is if you get a special discount from your paint vendor for ordering a truckload.  The paint vendor might even go as far as to give you special billing and terms for this truckload order.


For the example stated below, lets assume that you are a Dupont jobber.  Dupont is offering you separate billing terms for a truckload order, and will give you 6% off of your regular costs for this order.  You decide to set up a separate vendor, call it DUPT(for truckload).


The following steps are how to set it up on your system.  Please note:  all menu paths given are from the Main Menu, and assume that you have all menu options available on the terminal you are setting this up from. (This is normally the case, and not a concern)


  1. Create the vendor DUPT in Vendor Entry. (7.6.1)  Call it Dupont Truckload.   OPTIONAL: Create any necessary special payment terms for the vendor in Payment Term Entry. (7.8.1)


  1. Assign this vendor to all of the Dupont parts in Automatic Setup of Purchasing Sources. (5.6.3)


  1. Set the current vendor for your Dupont parts to be the regular vendor that reflects your current regular pricing for ordering Dupont parts in Update Current Source by Cost or Vendor. (3.4.3.2) NOTE:  You normally will not need to do this, as, normally, you only have one vendor for your Dupont parts, and it is currently set as the source for these parts.


  1. Create a preloaded prices file to store your 6% discounted price for your DUPT vendor in Automatic Markup of Prices. (5.6.2.3)  In this example, use 98 for the source and target price codes, and percent to be 94% with no auto rounding.


  1. Change the current source for your Dupont parts to DUPT in Update Current Source by Cost or Vendor. (3.4.3.2)


  1. Activate the preloaded prices file you created in step 4.  Do this activation in Activate Preloaded Prices. (5.6.2.5)  Make sure to answer N (no) to the maintain GP structures question, and N (no) to the print cost variances report question.


  1. Change the current source for your Dupont parts back to your regular vendor in Update Current Source by Cost or Vendor. (3.4.3.2)


What you should now see is a new source, called vendor DUPT, with a truckload cost, in this case, a 6% discounted cost, for all of your Dupont parts.


You can check this in costs and prices entry.