Vendors

Descriptions of the fields and buttons on the Vendors screen of the Product Management tab are provided in the following table.

Note: To make changes on the Vendors screen, you must have the proper security privileges. To make changes at the global product level, the Product Maint (Global) job function needs to be assigned to one of your roles. To make changes at the warehouse product level, the Product Maint (Warehouse) job function needs to be assigned to one of your roles. Roles are assigned to users in the User Maintenance on the Security Maintenance screen of the Vision Configuration tab. For more information, refer to About roles and job functions.

Field or button	Description
Description	The product description is displayed in this field.
Vendor	Select a vendor family that supplies this product. This drop-down list is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
UOM	Select the unit of measure (UOM) in which you purchase the product from this vendor. A mismatch in units of measure causes the system to display error messages in other parts of Vision such as the Customer Service tab and the Purchasing tab. This drop-down list is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Cost	Type the product's purchase order (PO) cost for its PO unit of measure. This field is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Vendor Part No.	If the vendor labels the product with a part number, type it in this field. This number is included on purchase orders to this vendor. This field is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Catalog Page	Type the page number for the product in the vendor's catalog. This field is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Suppress EDI	In some cases, a particular vendor may supply an item at a much better cost than the other vendors listed in a sequence, and so you may want to bypass the other vendors for this product only. To do so, you can select this Suppress EDI check box for a vendor, which will suppress EDI transmissions to this vendor for this product. This will, however, also keep wholesaler drop ship orders from being transmitted. If EDI transmissions to this vendor for this product should not be suppressed, clear this check box. This check box is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Primary Vendor	If the vendor should be the primary vendor, select this check box. If the vendor should not be the primary vendor, clear this check box. Note that you can have only one primary vendor per product. This check box is available at the global and warehouse product levels.
Add	To add a vendor, complete the vendor fields as necessary and then click Add.
Remove	To remove a vendor, select it in the listing and then click Remove.
Vendors listing
Vendor	This column shows the vendor families that can supply the product
UOM	This column shows the unit of measure for the corresponding vendor.
Cost	This column the product's purchase order cost for its PO unit of measure
Vendor Part Number	This column shows the vendor's part number for this product.
Catlg	This column shows the page number for the product in the vendor's catalog.
Suppress EDI	This column indicates whether EDI transmissions are suppressed to this vendor for this product. If the column indicates Yes, then the EDI transmissions are suppressed. If the column indicates No, then the EDI transmissions are not suppressed.
Primary Vendor	This column indicates whether or not this vendor is the primary vendor for this product. If the column indicates Yes, then this is the primary vendor. If the column indicates No, then this is not the primary vendor.
	To move the selected vendor higher in the listing, click this button.
	To move the selected vendor lower in the listing, click this button.
Lead Time	This field identifies the number of calendar days that it takes to receive this product from your vendor. Entry in this field is not required. The lead time is used in reorder point (ROP) calculations. This field is available at the warehouse product level; it is also available if you are creating a new global product. It is unavailable at the global product level for existing products. For information on how the system determines the lead time, refer to Overview of inventory replenishment.
Accept	Click this button to save any changes that you have made.
Cancel	Click this button if you do not wish to save the changes that you made, and you wish to revert to your previous information.
Warehouse Product Updates	If you change the data in certain fields for a warehouse product record, you can have that data pushed to other warehouses on demand with only a few simple clicks so that you don't have to maintain each warehouse product record individually. The fields that can be updated are: Inventory Update Price Hold Bypass Exclude Stockout Purchase from Wholesaler Breakroom Price Calculation Bypass Miscellaneous Code % (in the Loading area) Deposit Product Number Minimum Sell UOM Standard Cost ABC Code New PO Cost and Effective (the effective date) New Price Level, New Price, and Effective (the effective date) The data can be pushed to a warehouse only if (1) the inventory class of the warehouse is set to sellable inventory and (2) the selected product record already exists in the warehouse. If the warehouse product record does not exist, you can copy the global product record to the warehouse. For more information, refer to Copy a global product record to a warehouse. When you click this Warehouse Product Updates button, the Warehouse Product Updates dialog box is displayed. For information about this dialog box, refer to descriptions of the Warehouse Product Updates dialog box. Note that this button is available only if the following conditions are met: The product record that is displayed must be a warehouse product record, not a global product record. The warehouse must have its inventory class set to sellable inventory. The inventory class of a warehouse is established in the Inventory Class drop-down list on the Main screen of the Warehouse maintenance. If you have made changes to any of the fields in the warehouse product record, you have saved those changes.