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 (
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 Purchase > Maintenance menu, select Buy Line Maintenance to display the Buy Line Maintenance window.
From the File menu, select New Buy Line.
In the Buy Line ID field, 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.
From the Information menu, select Super Buy Lines. The Super Buy Line window displays.
Enter the buy lines that you want to group together for the super buy line.
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