Multiple PO Companies & Asset Locations

Hello our organization has recently purchased a new hospital and Finance has put on a separate PO, AP, GL company as our main asset location. We have run into some obstacles with our Accounts Payable department being reluctant to built out a new AP & Match company. I have reached out to GHX to provide reference clients that have a similar situation but they have not provided any useful feedback yet. Does someone have a setup with more than one PO company, inventory asset locations on both companies and send orders through GHX for more than one company? Any information you could provide would be very helpful. I was hoping to better understand the system build for the PO, MA, AP companies.

Thanks,

Brandon Nolan

brandon.nolan@mymlc.com

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unknown

Brandon,

We do. It requires Lawson setup, programming in GHX to sort things out and sometimes having to make three right turns to go left, but it works.

Robert Traub

Hospital for Special Surgery

taliening

We have five PO, AP, MA, GL and IC Companies that all share the same GHX connection. Also over 15 asset locations throughout those companies. Without being sure what their reluctance is it is hard to help address the concern. Inbound transactions are translated using an external account number to Lawson values. So Company B - Shipto A would have a different account number than Company B - Ship-to B. From a GXH standpoint you will need to board the newly acquired hospital's accounts to whatever your existing GS ID (GHX current connection) after you get GHX to add the Facility Structure as you want it. So we have a "Corporate" entity for lack of a better term that sits at the top of the Hierarchy in GHX then all of the hospitals sit underneath. Then you just board the accounts with the ship -to values for that facility and they are ready. The Lawson side is the same from a translation value standpoint as your existing hospital only you would change it to translate to the new company number.

unknown

Hello, we have 10 companies setup in IC/PO/AP/MA/GL of those we had 8 setup for GHX for EDI PO out.

Last year we but converted to Vizient - Transaction Center for our EDI processing but they are utilizing the GHX structure as well.

For IC we are using a single item master, in AP we are using a single vendor master where we use the locations in AP10.2 and PO10.2 to load the individual accounts. Then we setup one ED10 record per vendor GHX should be able to provide you with the GSID here, then setup ED40 the list name refers back to the ED10 build where you reference the Tpid and the direction. The Lawson value refers to the ship to, vendor name, purchase from location, and company number ours follows this character spacing format 9,5,4,4. The External value then is the vendor account number for the location.

IC/PO/AP/MA/GL would need to be setup for each company to work correctly. Let me know if you have questions.

Derek.MIller@bryanhealth.org

jcollins

Hello, thank you for the quick response. So are you using the same vendor master between all the companies? AP is reluctant because we haven't had an additional company before and it is new. I wanted to make sure I understood the PO/IC build. We are working with GHX on potential build on their end and will have the hierarchy setup. Then we could build out the ED screens in Lawson. Are you familiar with the AP build by chance?

Thank You,

Brandon Nolan

Brandon.Nolan@mymlc.com

jcollins

Hello Derek,

Thank you for the quick response. I am going to email you directly

Thank You,

Brandon

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