> Associating Suppliers with Parts

Enter other suppliers of your part in addition to your preferred supplier. You must define additional suppliers on the Suppliers form (SMSUPP) before associating them with parts..

Follow these steps to associate suppliers with parts.

  1. Open the Parts form (SMPART).

  2. Query for the part with which to associate suppliers.

  3. Click the Suppliers tab. Datastream 7i displays the Suppliers page.

  4. Supplier—Click to select the supplier. Preferred supplier is read-only. Preferred suppliers must be selected on the Record view page.

  5. Catalog reference—Enter the supplier’s part number.

  6. Gross price—Enter the supplier’s price for the part without discounts or additional fees. After you define discounts and additional fees, Datastream 7i updates Net price. Datastream 7i also calculates Local price, taking into account purchase unit of measure, conversion factors, and currency data.

   Double-click in Net price to view price, currency, and exchange rate information.

  1. Purchase UOM—Click to select the purchase unit of measure.

  2. Conversion factor—Enter the conversion factor if the purchase unit of measure is different from the inventory unit of measure.

  3. Tax code—Click to select the tax for this part.

  4. Lead time—Enter the average number of days that the supplier needs to provide the ordered goods.

  5. Expiration date—Enter the price quotation’s expiration date.

  6. Repair price—Enter the price that the supplier charges to repair the part.

  7. Supplier repair part number—Enter the number that the supplier uses to reference the part when it is being repaired.

  8. Click Comments to add a description of any unique qualities of this supplier’s version of the part. Datastream 7i displays the Comments dialog box. The Comments dialog box retains the permissions defined for the tab from which it is invoked.

  9. Choose File | Save from the menu bar. Datastream 7i saves the information to the database.