Products

Use the Products command to link stock items with purchase order suppliers and record economic order quantities, vendor ratings and lead times for analysis purposes. You can also control the creation of purchase orders to ensure the right supplier is selected for particular products.

The Products command can be used from both the Processing and the Documents commands.

Products Entries

Box	Description
Reference	A reference that identifies the stock or product item. You can select from a list.
Supplier Ref.	A reference used by the supplier for the item.
Supplier Ref. Description	A description used by the supplier for the item.
Supplier	A reference that identifies the supplier is displayed here according to the supplier record that was active when you chose the Products option from the Processing menu.
E.O.Q.	The economic order quantity for this item. This is the optimum reorder quantity for this item from this supplier and will be presented as a default order quantity on purchase order records.
Cost	The cost price of the item. This defaults to the cost price stored on the stock or product record but you can change it for the supplier. It is offered as the default cost price for purchase orders.
Vendor Rating	A number from 0 to 9 that indicates the rating for the supplier. You can use vendor rating to identify a priority for the supplier where a product can be obtained from more than one source. The supplier with the best rating will be your preferred choice for ordering.
Lead Time Days	The number of days lead time between an item being ordered from a supplier and it being delivered. This information is used to establish a default required date for detail lines on: purchase orders posted from the P.Orders - Processing form, and purchase documents posted from the P.Orders - Documents form. Important: When purchase orders and purchase documents are posted, it is possible to enter a required date on the header form that is used automatically on the detail lines (but can be overwritten on the lines if required). In this situation the lead time recorded here is ignored.