About the Purchasing Vendor
Your Purchasing Vendor is the vendor from whom you normally want to buy an item or group of items. The first wholesaler vendor added for an item is set as the Purchasing Vendor.
You can make another vendor the Purchasing Vendor at any time by using the Set Purchaser feature in the Item Vendors tab. Through the O/PUS toolbox, you can also choose to automatically select Purchasing Vendors for groups of items based on the lowest cost available or on a specific pricing program loaded from your O/PUS update.
When you load the O/PUS update, you can automatically load the information for your primary wholesaler and any other available vendors. Then if you load your best pricing through the O/PUS toolbox, this information is loaded as the Purchasing Vendor information. (Loading your best pricing does not overwrite any information for any of your other vendors.) This means you have all available pricing and costs for the item for each of your vendors. You know what the wholesaler cost is, and you know who you are purchasing the item from. If the pricing from your Purchasing Vendor is about to expire, you know exactly what the price is after the sale. With this information you can determine if you need to purchase any extra quantities before the sale ends. Also, all of this pricing information is available in Order Entry and Purchasing.
Once you have set up the Purchasing Vendors for your items, you can set the manual and automated short-buy to create purchase orders based on the Purchasing Vendor for each item. This feature ensures that you’re always buying from the right vendor at the right price.