Vendors

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the vendor from whom you want to purchase this good.

The vendor must not be flagged as a payroll vendor, and its Approval Code must not be Not Approved.

If the vendor is approved or preferred for the item, its Approval Code must not be Pending.

You can still link a pending, non-payroll vendor to an item if the vendor is not approved or preferred for the item. In this case, you will receive a warning.

Vendors are established in the Vendor User Flow (Materials\Maintain\Vendors).

This non-editable field displays the vendor name corresponding to the vendor ID in the Vendor field.

You establish vendor names in the Vendor User Flow (Materials\Maintain\Vendors).

This field specifies whether or not this vendor is approved for this good and also specifies if the vendor is the preferred source of the good.

Choose from the following:

• Approved - this indicates that the vendor is an approved source of a specific good.

• Not Approved - this indicates that the vendor is not an approved source of a specific good.

• Preferred - this indicates that the vendor is the preferred source of a specific good.

Note:  Only one vendor may be designated as the preferred good source at a time.

This field displays the last purchase order number assigned to this vendor.

This field displays the date of the last purchase order assigned to this vendor.

This field displays the last quote identifier assigned to this vendor.

This field displays the date the last quote identifier was assigned to this vendor.