Defining Drop Points for Vendors

If your company uses central purchasing, you need to determine which branches will serve as the default drop points for purchase orders submitted to this vendor from central purchasing. You can define multiple drop points for this vendor, but only one drop point can be defined or edited at a time.

You cannot assign a branch to more than one drop point. Any branch not assigned to a drop point serves as its own drop point.

To define a drop point:

  1. From the Files menu, select Vendor to display the Vendor Maintenance screen.

  2. In the Vendor/New field, enter a vendor ID to display the vendor record.

  3. Use the Add'l hot key to display the Additional Info screen.

  4. Use the Drop Point hot key to display the Drop Point Maintenance screen.

  5. In the Drop Point Brch field, press F10 and select the branch to which this vendor will ship all materials.

The company's branches display in the Branches field.

  1. In the Branches field, enter each branch for which the assigned drop point branch will receive materials from this vendor.

The system uses these settings for the initial drop points, but you can override them through Purchase Order Entry if necessary.

  1. To delete the displayed drop point, use the Delete hot key. The system prompts to confirm the deletion.

  2. Press Esc to save the settings. You can then assign another drop point or press Esc again to exit.

See Also:

Using Drop Point Maintenance

Creating a Vendor Record

Entering Additional Vendor Data