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Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Suppliers

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Posted on by Rosey

Hi all,

I know that we can set up primary vendors for items, but is there any way to set up secondary and tertiary suppliers as well. 

What we want is for one vendor to be the main vendor that supplies the item, but if they do not have it, we go to the next one,  and then the next...

Thanks,

Rosey

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  • Guy Terry Profile Picture
    Guy Terry 28,970 Moderator on at

    Hi Rosey,

    Are you hoping for Master Planning to make this decision, or your users when manually creating Purchase orders?

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    Rosey on at

    Ideally, both...

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    Guy Terry 28,970 Moderator on at

    As far as I know, Master Planning will only use the Primary Vendor on the Item OR the Vendor from the Trade Agreement which has either:

    • the lowest price or
    • the shortest lead time

    Outside those parameters, how could master planning know whether your vendor currently has no inventory? If your buying team know which vendor should be used right now, they could simply change the Primary vendor.

    In terms of manual purchase order creation, you have 'Approved vendor' functionality, which restricts which vendors can be used to buy an item.

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh227431.aspx

    But again, AX won't know that the vendor you have chosen cannot supply the item and recommend to use a different vendor. It can only limit you to one of your preferred vendors.

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