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Inventory Management
Maintaining vendor records
Vendors are the suppliers of the products you sell in your store. You can add or change vendor records
in the Store Manager.
When you create a vendor’s record, the vendor displays as a selections in drop-down lists wherever you
are required to select a vendor, such as in the General Parameters Maintenance window or the
Promotions Maintenance window.
Note: Before you can add vendor records, you must define the selections for the Vendor Type and
State/Prov drop-down lists. For more information, see “Maintaining drop-down lists” on page 16.
To add or change a vendor record:
1.
On the Main Menu, click File Maintenance.
2.
Click Vendors. The current list of defined vendors appears.
3.
Do one of the following:
4.
To create a new vendor, click New.
To change an existing vendor, select the vendor, and then click Open.The Vendor window
appears.
Complete the general information identifying the vendor as follows:
Vendor ID: Type up to ten characters that uniquely identify the vendor in Store Manager.
Vendor Name: Type up to 35 characters to define the name of the vendor as it will appear in
drop-down lists in which you select vendors.
Address: Type the vendor’s street address.
City: Type the name of the city in which the vendor is located.
State/Prov: Select the state or province in which the vendor is located.
Zip/Postal: Type the vendor’s zip code or postal code.
Vendor Type: Select a type of vendor.
Phone: Type the vendor’s telephone number.
Note: In all Phone and Fax fields, the brackets around the area code and the
hyphen between the third and fourth numbers are completed automatically.
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Fax: Type the vendor’s fax number.
Complete vendor’s contact information as follows:
Contact 1 and Contact 2: Type the names of the vendor’s first and second contacts.
Phone: Type the contact telephone numbers.
Fax: Type the contact fax numbers.
Complete the following information for the vendor:
Account Number: Type up to 20 characters of the store’s account number with the vendor.
E-Mail: Type the vendors e-mail address.
Order Lag Days: Type the number of days that elapse between the time you place an order
with the vendor, and the time you receive the order.
Min Order: To set the minimum amount the order must reach before the store places an order
from the vendor, type a currency amount, including decimal place.