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Work with supplier agreements (DMR01401)

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This panel displays the supplier agreements set up in your system. This Supplier agreement file is the basis for how the system will calculate the best possible price when a purchase order is entered, and used in combination with the Business partner structure.

The following parameters are used in a supplier agreement:

Values Action
Key In the Supplier agreement keys table you activate the keys you want to use.
Supplier In the Business partner file you select the supplier for whom you want to enter an agreement.
Item/item category/item group Select from the Item file the item or from the Item category/group table the category/group to be included in the supplier agreement on detail level.
Purchase price The basic purchase price is retrieved from the Item file. However, a new price may be entered manually.
Discount On the Quantity limits panel you specify the type of discounts to be valid for the agreement.

Options

Translation Select this option to either update or view information from the Table translation file. Displayed fields can be translated to any of the languages registered in the Language table.

Function keys

Selection fields

Work with supplier agreements (DMR01404)

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This panel displays the starting and ending dates of the agreement, if Shift info was pressed on the previous panel.

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Function keys

Selection fields

Work with supplier agreements (DMR01407)

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On this panel you add or maintain the terms and conditions to be valid for this general agreement.

Function keys

Supplier
Enter a valid code from the Business partner file.
Agreement

Agreement base
Enter a code indicating the terms of the agreement.

Valid codes are:

Code Description
T The system will base the price calculations on the agreement’s validity period specified in the Valid from/to fields.
Q The system will base the price calculations on the agreement’s target base and value specified in the Target base/value fields.
B The system will base the price calculations on both validity period and target value.
Valid from
This field is mandatory if the Agreement base field is set to T or B. Enter the starting date from which the agreement is valid.
Valid to
This field is mandatory if the Agreement base field is set to T or B. Enter the ending date to which the agreement is valid.
Terms of payment
Optional entry. Enter a code from the Terms of payment table. The Item related key field must be blank. Note: A value entered in this field will override the equivalent values in the Supplier file.
Terms of delivery
Optional entry. Enter a code from the Terms of delivery table. The Item related key field must be blank. Note: A value entered in this field will override the equivalent values in the Supplier file.
Order val disc
Optional entry. Enter a code from the Order value discounts table. This field is used when creating a general agreement independent of what items are bought. The entered value is added to the purchase order header. Note: The Item related key field must be blank and no detail records can be entered on the Work with supplier agreements, Details panel.
Target base
This field is optional if the Agreement base field is set to T, and mandatory if the Agreement base field is set to Q or B. This field is used in conjunction with the Target value and Target validation fields. Enter a code indicating what value this agreement should be based on. Note: If the agreement is time based (T), this field can be used as a follow-up.

Valid codes are:

Code Description
QT Quantity in stock unit
NS Net value in system currency
NP Net value in primary currency
GW Gross weight
NW Net weight
GV Gross volume
NV Net volume
Target value
Enter a numeric value corresponding to the value entered in the Target base field to determine the limit of the agreement.
Target validation
Enter O (ORDERED) or R (RECEIVED) to define which target counter should be used when an agreement is checked in the Price calculation routine. Whenever an item that received a price from an agreement is ordered or received, the specified counter accumulates the value.

For example, you have an agreement with a supplier to buy 1,000 pieces of an item for a specific price. For each quantity that you receive, the system updates the Agreement file. Each quantity value is measured against the target value specified in the agreement. When this value is reached, you are back to normal pricing, if Agreement base is set to Q or B.

Target counter ord
This field will automatically be updated when a purchase order line connected to this agreement is entered.
Target counter rec
This field will automatically be updated when a purchase order line/goods reception connected to this agreement is received.
Item related key
Optional entry. Enter an active key from the Supplier agreement keys table. If this field is left blank, the agreement is valid for all items or item groups purchased from the supplier you are working with.

Work with supplier agreements, Copy (DMR01408)

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Supplier
Displays the supplier connected to the agreement you want to copy. This may be changed if the new agreement should be connected to another supplier.

Agreement

Work with supplier agreements, Deletion (DMR01411)

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