Creating Super Buy Lines

A super buy line is a buy line made up of other buy lines. Super buy lines let you take advantage of specials provided by your vendors. You merge existing buy lines into a single buy line for a vendor who can replenish all items in all of the included buy lines. You create a new buy line with a new target.

For example, you buy screws (SCR buy line), washers (WSH buy line), and nails (NAIL buy line) from different vendors. However, you discover that you could purchase all three from the same vendor at a different target. You create a super buy line (MET) selecting SCR, WSH, and NAIL to make up the new buy line. With all three buy lines together, you can meet the vendor target price more quickly and only have to cut one purchase order - saving time and money.

Note: For super buy lines that do not have a procure group specified the suggested P/O report will first look to the individual product lines contained within the super buy line to determine procure group. If individual product lines do not contain a procure group the system uses a default group of DFLT.

Before creating a super buy line, identify the buy lines you want to group together.

To create a super buy line:

From the Purch > Maintenance menu, select Buy Line Maintenance to display the Buy Line Maintenance screen.
In the Buy Line ID field, type New. A prompt screen displays.
Enter the name of the super buy line in the field provided. The name must be unique and is limited to eight characters.

Note: Buy line and a super buy line IDs must be different.

In the Description field, enter a short description of the super buy line. The system limits the description to 30 characters.
Use the Super Buy Line hot key. The Super Buy Line screen displays.
Enter the buy lines that you want to group together for the super buy line.

Note: You can use F10 to display a list of possible choices, if needed.

Press Esc to commit those buy lines to the super buy line.
Update the fields, if needed. These fields are the same as when creating a regular buy line.
Press Esc to save your changes and return to a blank screen.
Press Esc to return to the main menu options.