Automatic Ordering From Secondary Vendors

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The hospital I work for is struggling to keep up with managing supply backorders and is currently performing manual review of items in Lawson and pushing out new orders as we find errors. That leads me to a couple questions: 

1) Is there any way to cause Lawson to trigger an order for an item from a secondary vendor? (Preferably pulling the vendor number from IC12.2) 
2) How is your organization handling/monitoring backorders? Are there any forms/reports in Lawson you are finding particularly useful?

We are using Lawson version 10.

David Wong

Hello, Adam.

I am thinking that there is not a way for the vendor to communicate to the Lawson system that items are backordered AND to try another vendor. If an item is backordered, the vendor still plans to fulfill the order and Lawson is setup to respect that. I have thought of EDI, which has the capability for the vendor to tell Lawson that they will not fulfill the backorder on an item, but Lawson does not have an automation to try another vendor. When I used IC140 to replenish by vendor, I had to move the vendor from the lower priority position to the highest priority in order for IC140 to pick up the item. We found the field help for the Priority field on IC12.2 agrees with the test.

Sorry, I could not find a better answer for your questions.