System Configuration: Manufacturer Abbreviation

Descriptions of the fields and buttons for the Manufacturer Abbreviation maintenance are provided in the following table. The Manufacturer Abbreviation folder is a subfolder of the Product Information folder on the System Configuration screen of the Vision Configuration tab.

To create a new manufacturer abbreviation record, right-click the Manufacturer Abbreviation folder and select Add New Manufacturer Abbreviation.

Note: To access the Manufacturer Abbreviation maintenance, you must have the proper security privileges. The File Maintenance 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
Manufacturer Abbreviation	This field can contain up to seven characters. The code typed in this field is used to validate the manufacturer code entered in Product Master Maintenance and Product Access by Category.
Name	This is the name of the manufacturer.
Class	This drop-down list identifies the ownership of the manufacturer. Valid options are: Minority Owned Women Owned Women and Minority Owned Other Two reports available in Vision Back Office show usage for products from a selected manufacturer class: The Minority Company & Dept Item Usage Report is a report that you can send to customers to help them track their product usage during a selected fiscal month for recycled products and for products from minority- and/or women-owned manufacturers. For more information, refer to Minority Company & Dept Item Usage. The Minority Company & Consolidated Item Usage Report is a consolidated report that you can use to track product usage by one or more selected customers for recycled products and for products from minority- and/or women-owned manufacturers. For more information, refer to Minority Company & Consolidated Item Usage.
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.