One important feature was not carried over from the Extended Solution predecessor PO-1020; the ability to enter a Unit Cost during sales order entry that will become the purchase order's unit cost. This is a critical feature for companies doing a high volume of special orders where in many cases the vendor has quoted the unit cost and the unit cost is known during sales order entry. Standard Sage 100 does not allow editing of the Unit Cost field (except for drop ship lines only).
The Extended Solution accomplished this by using a SO line UDF for the unit cost. Version 4.50 does not have this feature and therefore is missing the ability to enter a quoted Unit Cost. But instead of a programming change, it looks as though the same thing could be accomplished by changing the Data Dictionary attributes of the SO Lines Unit Cost field to allow the Unit Cost field to be edited/entered for non-drop ship lines.
This would allow the vendor's quoted unit price to be entered on the sales order. The Auto Generate feature has the ability then to use the SO line Unit Cost for the PO line Unit Cost.
For companies where a single sales order could have multiple special order items from several-to-many vendors this would streamline the process and eliminate the step of having to edit each automatically generated purchase order, navigate to the Lines tab, and change every PO Unit Cost. Currently the 4.50 process is less than automatic.
by: John M. | over a year ago | Sales & Distribution
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As a Sage Business Partner, we have several Sage 100 ERP customers who utilized PO-1020 to auto generate PO's from SO's specifically for special order items. Since the selling price and vendor unit cost change for every line item entered, not being able to input the vendor quoted price on the SO has made them go back to double entry, increased their work load and added another chance for an error.
Trying to process a large order is very cumbersome.