Using PurchaseFrom

What do you use to indicate the final destination of the product ordered on the PO? These are where we store the vendor account numbers for vendors like Medline and Office Depot. All of these products will be ship to these offsite clinics.. Im currently setting them up as Purchase Froms, but Im not sure that is the right approach. There must be some hospitals that do this? Can any one explain how this is done in Cloudsuite V11 Mutli Tenant ?

Also does anyone think the EDI documentation is pretty light? If not please point me to more comprehensive docs on the subject.

Thanks

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rkhickam

Steven - We use purchase from to help manage the final delivery location and also is tied to EDI to help manage their process for picking/packing orders on pallets for our Distributors. Requires some work in Item Location. -- EDI documentation is almost none existent. Childrens Mercy Kansas City

have been live on Cloud Suite since November 2019, previously Lawson v9. Glad to discuss with you off line if desired - Bob Hickam - rkhickam@cmh.edu

unknown

EDI documentation will be external to Infor. Since it's an established "standard" (actually, many many standards) you can google for "EDI Documentaion"..... currently, about twelve and a half MILLION results.

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Steven

One assumption - that you're ONLY using Purchase From locations to define ship-to's, and not for divisions under a parent company (that adds another whole level of complexity that can really confuse matters).

Also, other ERP's require you to build your ship-to locations (and GLN's), then link them to your vendors, where you would assign account numbers and other information (such as in larger organizations where you may have different contacts for different cities/states). Info doesn't follow this methodology, so each Purchase From Location is built from scratch. Therefore, standardization isn't enforced (yes, you can use Infor Spreadsheet Designer to upload, which certainly helps, but it's not the same as a relation back to a standardized location table).

For vendors you transact over EDI, you can build ship-to and account numbers in the Data Substitution table. This can be extended into purchase from locations, but isn't necessary. The format is:

EDIDataSubstitutionTable.EdilistName	EDIDataSubstitutionTable.LawsonValue	EDIDataSubstitutionTable.ExternalValue
<Trading Partner ID>_O_SHIPTO	<Ship-to Name>+<vendor #>+<Purchase From Location>+<Company>	<ship-to account number>

The "<Purchase From Location>" isn't required, so you can just leave it blank

The EDI documentation is there, but it can get pretty technical. We've been on CloudSuite since January 2019, using GHX for EDI, and would be happy to discuss offline.

unknown

We only board the receiving dock on the POs (exception Cardinal and Staples). The RQ01 Address tab is populated for everyone and prints out on the PO30's delivery tickets.) We use GHX and I don't deal with the ED500 or ED300 jobs but my documentation for v10 and GHX is attached

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unknown

I think your Medline is my Cardinal and your Office Depot is my Staples. No, you do not need Purch Froms - you need to turn on the ED40 sub that will use Req Loc in lieu of the PO Location.

Listname: TPID_O_DEPT_SHIPTO

Lawson Value: Company (4 digit)

External Value: ON

Once that is there the ED40 TPID_O_DEPT setup that is is my notes will put the req loc account number in where the Ship To account would normally be on the GHX map.

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