Manufacturing, Distribution, and Internet Applications

[sklco]

We purchase materials from one vendor and drop ship them to another vendor for component assembly. When selecting "Drop Ship" in the Purchase Order Entry program, only a customer drop down is available. How can we drop ship to a vendor instead of a customer?

Thanks!

Lee 

[jnoll]

You could make the vendor a customer as well.

Does the vendor send it back to you then?

Is the purpose just to ship it to them so they can do something to it before it comes to you or your customer?

Do you bill the vendor?

Depending on the answers above and what the purpose is for you sending to the Vendor, you could just make this another Warehouse location of yours.

[sklco]

Hey Joe, This is Lee from Strike King - you did a SQL review last week for our MAS500 system (Working with Rich at DSG).

Anyway, to answer your questions:

We purchase blades from vendor A  - they ship them to vendor B who then nickel plates them and ships them to us.

We enter the PO in a separate warehouse that we use for all sub-contractors so there is really no set address that can be put in the Warehouse setup for Bill to & Ship to

In MAS200 we just changed the ship to address on the PO but I'm not sure if we can do that in MAS500 and if so do we have to do this on each PO Line?

Thanks

Lee 

[trodman]

Lee,

We have the same need to drop ship to another vendor.  We created a warehouse called VENDOR for this purpose.  However, as you stated, the warehouse can only have one address.

In order to get around the one address problem, we did the following.  On the "Line Defaults" tab of the PO, if you leave the "Warehouse" field empty, check the "Drop Ship" box, uncheck the "Drop Ship" box, then click the "Ship To Address..." button, you will be able to enter an address on the fly.

One you've entered the address on the "Line Defaults" tab, it stores that address with the PO itself.  However, the default PO form will not print that address when the "Warehouse" field is empty.  You have to modify the PO form to force it to look at the address, even when the "Warehouse" is empty.  We took an addititional step and utilized one of the custom PO fields.  A user has to choose "Yes" in the custom field if they want the special address to get used on the PO.

Two drawbacks:

1. This only works on the header address.  I'm not sure how to get it to work on the lines.
2. Sage might see that as a bug and might "correct" it.  Hmmm, maybe I should have private messaged you instead 

[jnoll]

VERY NICE!