The Generate Purchasing Buyer Statistics option in Vision Back Office is used to collect purchasing statistics. These statistics are collected by company, buyer, and vendor. The company is determined by one of two ways: (1) the company number on the purchase order record is used, or (2) for the product database, the company is based on the company associated with the warehouse.
Buyers codes are assigned to vendors. If a buyer other than the one assigned through Vendor Master Maintenance purchases from the same vendor for a different company, then the buyer from the Vendor Detail Maintenance is used.
Purchasing statistics are collected into two files: BUYER_STATS_SUM and BUYER_STATS_DETAIL. These files contain product information for stock and temporary products, customer order information from the invoice and release records, and purchasing information from the purchase order records. The data is collected for all companies and vendors.
Two prompts are displayed when you are using the Generate Purchasing Buyer Statistics option:
Enter Period Ending Date
Enter Reporting Period to Process