You are creating a buy line for your copper tubing products. First, you use Buy Line Maintenance to create a new buy line named "COPTUB" for your purchasing branch. Minimally, you need to specify avendor targetunit (dollars, weight, pieces, or load factor) and a vendor target corresponding to the target unit. You select 18,000 pounds for the vendor target.
For your reference, identify the vendor corresponding to the buy line target. The order that you search for vendors determines the order in which they appear in this vendor list. For your reference, you also need to indicate other vendors that can replenish these products in an emergency. When you create a suggested purchase order, the system prompts whether you are purchasing all products in a buy line or just those products below order point. If you purchase all products, you must specify the vendor associated with the vendor target for the buy line. If you purchase just those products below order point, you must specify an emergency procurement vendor
If you have multiple purchasing agents and assign buy lines to individual buyers, you need to specify a buyer for the buy line.
The system uses the defaults for determining the average lead time for the buy line. In addition, the buy line uses system defaults for return transfer grace days, minimum order cycle, default lead factor, and minimum lead samples. Also by default, the system includes this buy line when you create suggested purchase orders for all buy lines.
After setting up a basic buy line, go to Product Maintenance and assign this buy line to all of your copper tubing products.
After assigning products to the buy line, you can now run the Suggest P/O program for the buy line.
You create buy lines for vendors and their targets. That is, you always buy your copper tubing products from your copper tubing vendor. The Suggest P/O program assumes that you are either purchasing the entire buy line or only buying short quantities. The program does not assume that you are purchasing your copper tubing products from your normal copper tubing vendor. You specify a vendor upon converting the suggested purchase order to an actual purchase order.
Use procurement groups to procure an item that is out of stock. Procurement groups do not affect the creation of a suggested purchase order. You can specify a procurement group at a buy line level when a procurement group can provide all the products in a buy line. On the other hand, you can assign procurement groups at the product level. Procurement groups assigned at the product level take precedent over those specified at the buy line level.
Therefore, consider the COPTUB buy line you set up to purchase your copper tubing products. Within that buy line, you have divided these products into two procurement groups:
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