Managing multiple Vendor Locations with Purchase Prices set by Location requires using separate Vendor files for each Buy From Location and Pay To Location. Therefore, if we are to want to register the purchases by two separate Vendor Locations, we setup a separate Vendor Card in BC for each Buy-From Location and associate a third Vendor Card for the Pay-To Vendor. This allows for separate Vendor Catalog entries for each Buy-From Location, with separate purchase history by Location and a common Pay-to Vendor with rollups for each Buy-From Location.
The Vendor Order Addresses does not accomplish these core management and reporting features when buying from large organizations who have multiple warehouses with different pricing and shipping rules by region or location.
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Creating a Table for Buy-From Locations associated with the Vendor Table and setting up Buy-From Locations per Vendor would eliminate the need to setup separate Vendor Cards by each Buy-From Location. Changing the Vendor Catalog to manage the Purchase Rules by Vendor Buy-From Location will be required, selecting the Vendor Buy-From Code would also need to be set from the Sales line for Drop-Shipments and Special Orders. The Create Purchase Order function would now set the Buy-From Location similar to how the Ship-To Location works on the Sales Order.
Category: Inventory