- Select the Work with purchase suggestions menu item.
- On the initial panel, select the purchase suggestion that contains the lines that you want to maintain and click Lines.
- You access Work with purchase suggestions, Lines. From this panel lines can be added to the purchase suggestion, existing lines can be changed, deleted, confirmed and transferred.
Adding suggestion lines
Click Add. The new lines that are generated will then be added to this suggestion.Deleting lines
To delete a suggestion line select the applicable line(s) and click Delete. The Delete purchase suggestions panel will appear prompting you to confirm the selected line(s). To accept click OK, to cancel click Back. You will return to the initial panel.Maintaining lines
- Select the applicable line and click Change.
- You access Work with purchase suggestions, Line. displaying detailed information about a purchase suggestion line.
- Item
- Warehouse
- Suggested purch qty
- Enter the quantity in purchase units.
- Suggested purch qty
- Displays the suggested quantity calculated by the purchase suggestion creation routine.
- Purchase price
- Displays the purchase price, per purchase unit, in the currency of the purchase suggestion. The system retrieves the purchase price automatically if you leave the field blank.
- Price order date
- Indicates if the purchase price is calculated based on order date or dispatch date as defined in the Item file, Supplier information panel.
If you are working with an existing suggestion, you can change:
Additional information displayed includes the following. Note: Some of the fields below will not be displayed if Inventory Control is installed.
- Suggested stock qty
- Displays the suggested purchase quantity in stock units.
- Pack size
- Conversion factor
- Displays the conversion factor which is used to convert the stock unit quantity to the purchase unit quantity.
- Required qty
- Displays the required quantity. Refer to the Panel help for the calculation of this field.
- ROP
- Displays the re-order point, retrieved from the Item file. Note: For time axis items no information will be displayed in this field.
- SST
- Displays the safety stock, retrieved from the Item file. Note: No information will be displayed in this field if the safety stock is defined in days, i.e. the Safety stock type field in the Item file is set to 1.
- EOQ
- Displays the economical order quantity, retrieved from the Item file. Note: If the Required qty field is greater than the economical order quantity in the Item file, the required quantity is also displayed in this field.
Click OK to update the suggestion line. You are now ready to confirm, transfer the line to an internal replenishment order (see Transfer purchase suggestion lines (Stock Replenishment)), or you can copy the line to a purchase order (see Copy a purchase suggestion into a purchase order).
Related topics
- About working with purchase suggestions (Stock Replenishment)
- Automatically create a purchase suggestion (Stock Replenishment)
- Manually create a purchase suggestion (Stock Replenishment)
- Maintain a purchase suggestion (Stock Replenishment)
- Transfer purchase suggestion lines (Stock Replenishment)
- About purchase order entry
- Retrieval of purchase order line price