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Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

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Good afternoon,


I am trying to run an expense breakdown for a particular vendor and I am unsure what is the best way to do this. I want to analyze how much each branch is spending on office supplies from Staples.

Our GL setup is as follows XX-XXXX where the first 2 digits (segment ID) signify a branch location and the last 4 (account number) signify the expense account. I.e. 01-1050 is used for branch one's office supplies expense. Purchases can include multiple branches however, so a transaction might look like the following:

Total Purchase: $500

01-1050: $200

02-1050: $150

05-1050: $150

I do not see an option in SmartList to add the transactions purchase account as a column. 'Purchases account number' seems to be restricted to the Vendor's default purchase account, and not necessarily what was used. The only way that I have been able to generate an expense breakdown is by running a trial balance for all segment ID's for a purchase account, and then looking through all transactions to find the ones for the applicable vendor. This is tedious and there has to be a better way to do this so that it is already filtered by the vendor.

Does anyone know a more efficient way to compare expenses for a specific vendor across different segment ID's? I think there should be a report to do this, but I am unsure. Your help is greatly appreciated!

-Joey

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  • iruser2 Profile Picture
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    RE: Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

    you are welcome.

    If you are sorting by pieces of your chart of accounts, if you name the segments you will be able to add the segment to the smart list as a seperate field then you wont have to mess around in excel parsing out the segment.

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    RE: Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

    iruser you are amazing! I went into Financial < Account transactions and was able to get this set up as you mentioned. I used originating Master Name to filter by vendor, and the "Account Number" column is all I need to separate expenses by branches. This is SO much easier to evaluate costs between branches. Thank you for your help!! :)

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    iruser2 Profile Picture
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    RE: Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

    Hi Joey

    Come out of purchasing and move up to financial.  If you are in company with lots of security you may not see this and will have to ask your administrator for more security rights.

    Smartlist can even rename columns so that you can label them as vendor and invoice if you wish.  Here I have relabeled the fields.

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    RE: Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

    iruser, thank you for taking the time to respond. What do you mean by "GL transactions smart list"? If I try to use SmartList>Purchasing>Payables transactions the columns originating master name and originating master number are not available options to add. I also tried to click "New" to create a new SmartList but I did not see a General Ledger transactions list anywhere.

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    iruser2 Profile Picture
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    RE: Dynamics GP Report for Vendor Expense Breakdown

    You can get what you need from a GL transactions smart list.  Add originating master name to get the vendor or customer, and add the originating master number to get the vendor or customer invoice number.  You can then search by originating master number and see the full distribution of the transaction.

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