Item set up for purchasing from multiple vendors

Hello team,

We have several items we purchase from different vendors for multiple sites. for example companies 1,2,3 have to purchase from VendorA at x price and the remaining companies have to purchase the same item from vendorB at y price. please help me to understand the best practice to set up to tie the manufacturing number with the lawson number. DO i need to create one Lawson number and tie it to different vendor numbers (PO13.3) or shall i give 2 different Lawson numbers with same manufacturing number? and these items are also ordered through Requisition center, how can i control companies to make sure they wont order from the wrong vendor. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

Karthik

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dechevar

Hi Karthik,

We set up 1 Lawson Item # (IC11) and multiple PO13 records. We tie the items to a Vendor agreement on multiple PO25s with the different pricing for each company. We then would add Companies 1,2, and 3 as participants of Contract 1 from Vendor A, and remaining companies as participants on Contract 2 from Vendor B.

This will allow pricing and vendor to flow correctly if your PO01.4 defaults are set correctly.

Dan

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Hello Dan,

Thank you for your response which really helped us, i have followed all the steps. I have created an item in IC11 then multiple vendor records in po13.3, created different contracts in po25 with participants. but the problem is at the RQC, when we search for the item though the vendor item number its pulling the right Lawson number but the price from the other vendor contract.

Best Regards,

Karthik

dechevar

If the participants are set correctly for the contract, it should not pull from the wrong contract as the location does not have access to it. Double check that.

Legacy Contributor

Check the req loc on your RQC - if you switch it - it may not switch companies correctly. We do not use multiple companies here, but I've see others have issues. Try adding a 'normal' item first and see if that helps?

You may also want to check PO25 and verify that the Header Type Specific --> Priority is the same for all the PO25s?

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