Buy group can be a subset of a price line used with the buy or sell matrix, or can exist independently from a price line. Define buy and sell group IDs in Buy / Sell Group Maintenance and assign the groups to products in Product Maintenance.
A sell group is a set of products that share a common pricing scheme. Use a sell group ID to group items together when you want to use the same pricing formula to calculate the selling price assigned in the sell matrix.
A buy group is a set of products that share a common costing scheme. Use a buy group ID to group items together when you want to use the same pricing formula to calculate the buying price assigned in the buy matrix.
When you assign a buy or sell group to products or to matrix cells, the group ID indicates what the group contains. Give meaning to a group ID by starting the name with the price line or buy line ID followed by characters that define the subset.
For example, if you have multiple sell or buy groups associated with a price line, avoid a pattern of group names that starts with the price line ID by itself, then is followed by groups that use that price line ID as a prefix, as shown in the following table:
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Use this naming method |
Do not use this method |
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SYL-GEN |
SYL |
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SYL-LMP |
SYL-LMP |
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SYL-WHT |
SYL-WHT |
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SYL-MISC |
SYL-MISC |
With the second naming pattern, if you enter SYL as a group ID, SYL displays in the field, instead of giving you a choice of all the SYL groups. With the first pattern, if you enter SYL, all the SYL groups display, so you can choose from the complete SYL group.
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