Setting Up Vendor Details

The Vendor Details form is available in Purchase Orders only if you do not use Sage ERP Accpac Inventory Control. If you use Inventory Control, you set up vendor details in that program.

You use the Vendor Details form to link each item record to up to nine vendors. You also use this form to record details about each vendor and the costs for the item.

When a vendor is linked to an item record, you can select the vendor's item number as you enter item details on requisitions and purchase orders. Purchase Orders fills in the cost of the item for you, and prints the vendor's item number, rather than your company's item number, on the purchase order.

You normally assign vendors to an item record in order of priority. For example, if you buy the same item from more than one vendor, you would assign Vendor 1 to the vendor you use most often.

Note that before you can add vendor detail records, you need to add item records in Purchase Orders and add the vendor records in Accounts Payable.

For step-by-step instructions on using the Vendor Details form to add, edit, or delete a vendor details record, see Vendor Details form.

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