Purchasing

Vendor Stock Availability

Vendor Stock Availability

A very powerful feature within EBMS is the ability to record regular stock level updates from vendors and the associated data such as the lead time to receive it. This feature is very beneficial for a sales person, since an EBMS user can view this data very quickly at the point of sale for items that may need to be ordered.

The process of receiving and updating the stock amounts held by various vendors may be automated to occur as frequently as that information is provided by a vendor. Review the Multi-Vendor Catalog book and its related sections for the steps to configure this process within EBMS. It is also possible to manually update the amount of stock normally held by a vendor in the Purchasing tab of each inventory record.

To view the vendor stock availability of an item from within the Sales Order take the following steps:

  1. Navigate to an inventory item on the Sales Order and right click to display a menu as shown below.
  2. Select Vendor Availability to open the dialog which contains a list of the suppliers for the inventory item along with their available stock, lead days for delivery, and cost, etc.

This information can be changed on the Purchasing tab of the inventory item.