Buy groups and sell groups are subsets of the product file that group products with common pricing. Buy groups and sell groups are assigned to products by branch, so a product can be in a different group at different branches.
Set up sell and buy groups as follows:
Containing products from the same price line. For example, in the Delta price line, you buy and sell faucets priced in three different groups: CHROME, BRASS, and GOLD.
Containing the same type of product from different price lines. For example, you buy copper fittings from both the NEER and RACO price lines. Because the pricing is the same regardless of which price line you use, set up the group COPPER to include products from both price lines.
Containing products that you want to group together for any selling purpose.
Define sell groups and buy groups before assigning products to groups.
To assign a product to sell or buy groups:
From the Maintenance menu, select Product to display the Product Maintenance window.
In the Product field, enter the product ID to display the product record.
Use the Price hot key to display the Product Price Maintenance dialog box.
Select File > Hierarchy, enter a branch, and click OK to view the settings for a specific branch and where those settings came from. All territories that contain that branch display in the Branch /Territory column below the branch, in the order of the territory priority. For more information, see Branch Hierarchy Details.
Select Pricing > Groups to display the Price Group Maintenance dialog box.
Select Edit > Hierarchy to enter a branch. All the territories in which that branch resides display under the branch name in the Branch field.
In the Sell Group and Buy Group fields, enter the sell group or buy group for each branch, up to 20 characters, to which this product belongs. By default this field displays the name of the price line.
Use the Multiple Item button to assign multiple buy or sell groups in each field. When a customer orders a product with multiple sell groups, the system checks the matrix cells for the sell groups in the list from top to bottom in search of a match. When it finds a match:
And Best Price Check is activated, the system continues searching through the group matrix cells for the best price.
And Best Price Check is not activated, it stops searching regardless of whether the matrix cell for a group lower in the list has a better price.
To rearrange the order in which the system searches the group matrix cells, rearrange the group order.
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