Assign buyer to supplier for PO Suggestions

[Rick_Bird]

So this came up again today with a client. I thought someone (@askulte) had posted something and I found it in the Ideas, which is now locked:

Assign buyer to supplier for PO Suggestions

Suggestion: Add a buyer field to supplier entry, which is used for PO suggestions. Every company I’ve worked at had specific suppliers assigned to each buyer. Why not drive that right from the supplier setup?

I did not find it on Epicor ERP Ideas, so I paraphrased the post and added it to Epicor ERP Ideas.
I thought I would post this and invite those who had voted before or were interested could vote for it on Epicor ERP Ideas:

https://epicor-manufacturing.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ERP-I-376

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

How does this not have more interest on Epicor Ideas.
Dont most companies assign buyers to vendors?

[Mark_Wonsil]

@Craig

How does this not have more interest on Epicor Ideas.

Because people only have 50 votes and they hoard them for their own issues.

@Craig

Dont most companies assign buyers to vendors?

Some do, but big suppliers like Grainger, Amazon may have multiple buyers depending on the type of material purchsed.

It’s still a great Idea though…

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

@Mark_Wonsil

Because people only have 50 votes and they hoard them for their own issues

that makes sense.

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

What ever happened with this Idea? I cant find it in the Epicor Ideas page

[jmaves (Jennifer Maves)]

I must not understand the question. I went into supplier maintenance and have a primary supplier dropdown to select what buy is assigned to that supplier.

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

what version of epicor?

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

In my Pilot instance on 2024.2 i dont see what you are describing

[jmaves (Jennifer Maves)]

I am on 11.2.300

[Rick_Bird]

Here is the updated link:
Add BUYER to the Supplier tables, and add to | Epicor Ideas Portal

Please vote it up!

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

can you provide a screen shot and show the database field you are referring to?
Is it a UD field?

[Craig (Craig Rogers)]

i just voted.

[Rick_Bird]

Would it be possible for you to provide a screenshot?
I just checked 2024.2.12 (11.3.200)
I searched for ‘Prim’ or ‘Buy’ and I don’t see anything.
I bet @jmaves has a customization/UD Field.

[jmaves (Jennifer Maves)]

Yes, it appears that it is a UD field.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help!

[Rick_Bird]

That looks suspeciously custom to me.
With that field selected, select ‘Field Help’ from the Help menu and select the ‘Technical Details’ section, which will show the DB field.

(BTW - you might want to redact that Tax ID too in your screenshot)

[Rick_Bird]

@jmaves I know you already have this functionality as a customization, but if you could vote up the Epicor Idea the 34 others of us, would appreciate your support… if you haven’t already. It’s difficult to get these common sense ideas through:
https://epicor.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ERP-I-376

Thanks1

[JennL (Jenn Lisser)]

It was explained to me that buyers are set at the Part Class, which are expected to be tied to commodities and buyers handle “commodities”. This is also to help with buying power, since a buyer can purchase that commodity for multiple sites.

That being said, every customer I’ve worked with has their buyers assigned to the supplier. We’ve always filled in the buyer on the Part > Site record. The only times we’ve used the buyer at the Part Class is for expensed part classes to assign the buyer on requisitions.

I’ll vote for your idea too - lots of maintenance involved updating part records when buyers move around.

Jenn