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Metal Cost Purchase Orders Receiving

  • Review METALINFO:

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  • Purchase Order Metal Costs are used for initial values used on future purchase orders written.
  • Retail Metal Costs are used to set MSD (more information to follow).
  • Review INVENTORYMASTER:
    • Review a product and metal cost plug in for adjusting the DEFAULT purchase order cost.
      • Path – Product Management, Inventory Master
      • productid – 100002

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  • Review METAL AUDITS child usage
  • Review SUPPLIER
    • Review contact information maintenance and usage.
      • Usages in SF are still being modified for content and security and the review of this section will not be training per se.
      • SUPPLIER will be converted from Universe (VEND.MST).
      • New SUPPLIERs and updates to existing SUPPLIERs will be done through accounting (by accounting and through the accounting application) except for:
        • Purchase order address, phone, fax, email and contact information (CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS)
          • CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS will be converted from Universe (VEND.MST).
          • CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS for new SUPPLIERs may be entered by accounting.
          • Updates to CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS will be done by merchandising for purchase orders and other non-remittance addresses.
          • At this time, CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS information will be printed on purchase orders as they are at the time the purchase order is printed or re-printed, i.e., one vendor should not have multiple CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS for different purchase orders, else the CONTACTS or SUPPLIERADDS used a specific purchase may be wrong when reprinted.
      • Path – Purchasing, Maintenance, Supplier Files
      • Supplier Contacts, Supplier Mail to Addresses, Supplier Contact Categories
  • Metal Purchase Agreements
    • Usages not yet provided.
    • Will be converted and initially entered for new SUPPLIERs by accounting, but can be changed in Smartforms on SUPPLIER, i.e., by a buyer or in merchandising.
    • Are NOT variable on POMASTER; what is printed on a purchase order is what is set as the metal purchase agreement on the SUPPLIER at the time the purchase is printed/reprinted and if the metal purchase agreement is changed on the SUPPLIER it will be different than the original purchase when re-printed.
  • Payment Terms
    • Will be converted and initially entered for new SUPPLIER by accounting, but can be changed in Smartforms on POMASTER, i.e., by a buyer or in merchandising, but cannot be changed in Smartforms on SUPPLIER for new/future default payment terms.
  • Review purchase orders:
    • Review creation of purchase order header (POMASTER).
    • Path – Purchasing, Purchase Orders
      • Form mode, +
      • Select vendor in Supplier Name
      • Enter Request Ship Date

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  • Review PO Notes child usage.
    • Form mode, +
    • Add notes.
    • Save record.
    • Refresh screen (F5)
  • Add a purchase order product.
  • Review how METALINFO and INVENTORYMASTER metal cost information interact to update purchase order cost.
  • Discuss how a purchase can be updated after being issued to lock in metal purchase agreement ACTUAL metal cost.
  • Set purchase order to Approved
  • Review formatted purchase order Line mode.
    • Select purchase order.

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  • Review receiving:
    • Path – Warehouse Management, Key Rec
      • KeyRec entry/update
    • Path – Warehouse Management, Receiving
      • Review purchase order comments.
      • Review how metal cost plug in to update receiving cost.