Par Item Replenishment Source Nonstock

Hi All - We are trying to verify a question within our organization. Prior to either the April or May CU, did a vendor automatically default into the par item replenishment source for nonstocks? We know the company and location does if it is inventory. When the item is a nonstock you are required to enter a vendor. We have users that believe it used to default a vendor (probably based on cost defaulting rules) when adding a nonstock to the par location. It isn't doing that now and they need to search for which vendor they should enter. Anyone else believe it used to do that? Thank you.

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gtesche

I am not aware of par replenishing defaulting a vendor for direct sourcing, but I can't be absolutely sure as we always upload the replenishment (either from inventory or direct to vendor) when adding new par lines.

rkhickam

Children's in KC has the same approach as Gretchen, we always upload/load the replenishment vendor for Non Stock on PARS.

Stace Webley

Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like both of your organizations loads par items with an ISD and specifies the vendor. You never tried leaving it blank and having a vendor default in? Again, I'm not sure if this was ever the case which is why I wanted to hear from others.

gtesche

If my memory serves, even when adding a single item to a par without ISD (which we do use most of the time for par adds), you had to add replenishment during the line add process. I just don't recall the vendor being supplied without manually entering it. I rarely do the single line adds though, that's why I can't be sure.

Stace Webley

Thanks, @gtesche

flewis

Hi Stace!

Even prior to the CUs mentioned, the vendor replenishment on a PAR Location has been required information.

Thanks -

Frank

jean-oneill

Hi Stace

It does not automatically populate.

Thank you

Jean ONeill

Stace Webley

Thanks everyone!

gtesche

Is it possible that they were getting a vendor by autofill suggestions and not from Infor directly?

Stace Webley

As in via the browser suggesting an autofill value? I suppose that is possible.

gtesche

Yes, that's what I mean.

For a long while autofill worked in FSM for me, but in the last several months it doesn't. I don't get browser suggestions and haven't changed anything in my browser settings. I'd love to have it back though, it was a time saver.

Stace Webley

Thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps that is what they were experiencing.

ryan-schumacher

Late to the party here, but I also wanted to note that our staff have complained about this in the past. As others have confirmed, par items require hard coding the vendor replenishment; however, a template line does not. A template line can be given a non-stock purchase from or left blank (default from req loc), and it will default the vendor based on contract priority. "Why can't par items default?" is a question I have only been able to answer with "because that's how it works." If par items could default similar to template lines, that would be nice.

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