Item - Purchasing Information

Default Price

Default Price Unit

Where a price is not specified for a supplier, the Default Price and Price Unit are used.

Supplier

Select a supplier from the drop-down list.

See About suppliers.

Contract

You can enter pricing information and steel lengths for a specific supplier/contract combination. This is useful if you agree fixed material prices with your Suppliers for the duration of a Contract.

Select a Contract from the drop-down list if you want to enter purchasing information and steel lengths for this supplier for a specific contract. Otherwise, leave the field blank to apply the purchasing information and steel lengths for this supplier to all contracts.

Default Supplier

You can specify one Default Supplier for the item. To do this, in the default supplier's row, select the check box in the relative record row.

Price Unit

Select a default unit from the drop-down list. This is the unit in which the items are purchased, for example, Tonnes.

Currency

The currency specified in the Supplier record is shown by default. To change it, select a currency from the drop-down list.

Unit Price

Type in the default purchase price for the item.

Discount %

If you get a discount when you purchase the item from this supplier, enter it as a percentage here.

Tax Code

The supplier’s Tax Code. This is automatically populated from the Supplier record.

Supplier Part Number

This is a free text field where you can enter the part number that the Supplier uses.

Code

Size

Grade

If the item is sent using EDI, this is the part number split by Section Code, Section Size and Grade that the supplier uses.

Roll Reference Serial

Lead Time

Enter the time, in days, that it takes from ordering the item until receipt of the item.

Min Order Quantity

Specify the smallest quantity of the item that the supplier is willing to sell. For example, if you specified a price unit of tonnes above and enter 5 here, the minimum quantity that you can purchase from the supplier is 5T.

Order on Multiples of

Specify the number of items that must be ordered at one time.

Supplier Lengths

Click the Supplier Lengths button to enter a range of standard lengths that your supplier can provide.

AutoCut only nests steel members against a supplier if they have standard lengths defined in the Item Library. These are not pre-defined by the Section Wizard, so it is important that you set them up here.