Enter General Supplier Info

Explanation

This activity is used to enter general information for your supplier, e.g., default language and country details. As IFS Applications supports a multi-company environment, then a different supplier ID can be set up for each company.

There are two supplier categories; Supplier and Prospect. The tabs in the Supplier window will be enabled or disabled depending on the selected supplier category.

• Supplier: If this option is selected, all tabs will be enabled. Changing the supplier category to Prospect is not allowed.
• Prospect: If this option is selected, only the General, Address, Contact, Communication Method and Purchase tabs will be enabled.

If you are running a multi-site environment between two different companies and should use the INVOIC message when sending an invoice from the supplying to the receiving site, you have to enter the Our ID at Supplier/Customer fields in the General tab on both the internal supplier and customer.

If the supplier is intended to be used for B2B application, then you have to mark the supplier as a B2B Supplier.

The Creation Date field shows the date when the supplier record was saved.

Prerequisites

• The choice of language to be used for the supplier is selected in the Language tab in the ISO Code Usage window, in IFS/Application Services. Note that only the selected languages can be retrieved when specifying which will be used for the supplier.
• The choice of country code to be used for the supplier is selected in the Country tab in the ISO Code Usage window, in IFS/Application Services. Note that only the selected country codes can be retrieved when specifying which will be used for the supplier.

System Effects

You have entered some general information for your supplier, such as default language and country code.

Window

Supplier

Related Window Descriptions

Supplier, Supplier/General

Procedure

1. Open the Supplier window.
2. Create a new record.
3. Enter the supplier ID (maximum of 20 alphanumeric characters) and the name or description of the supplier.
4. You have the option to enter the association number for the supplier.
5. In the Default Language list in the General tab, click and select a default language for the supplier.
6. In the Country list in the General tab, click and select the supplier's country of origin.
7. Specify the category of the customer in the Supplier Category field.
8. The Creation Date field automatically shows the date when the record was saved.
9. If applicable enter a value in the Form of Business field or choose from the List of Values.
10. Save your record.