Work with purchase suggestion lines (Stock Replenishment)

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1. Select the Work with purchase suggestions menu item.
2. On the initial panel, select the purchase suggestion that contains the lines that you want to maintain and click Lines.
3. 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

4. Select the applicable line and click Change.
5. 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.

   If you are working with an existing suggestion, you can change:

   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.

   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).

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• 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