Display Prices

Use the Price Lookup (PLU) program to display a price for a specific customer and item. You can use this program to provide quotes and answer customer inquiries concerning price. The display also reports the pricing method that the pricing routine used to calculate the price. See Road Map for work flow.

  1. Enter the customer number or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the customer from a list.

  2. Enter the customer's ship-to number or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the ship-to from a list or leave blank if pricing is not specific to the customer's ship-to address.

  3. Enter data in these fields:

Field Name

Type / Max Length

Action / Description

Item number

Required
24 alphanumeric

Enter the number of the item, click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the item from a list, or leave blank and enter the customer's item number in the next field.

If you selected the Populate cust item from item xref? option in the System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Order Processing Options) and you cross-referenced this number to this customer's number in the Customer Item Maintenance (CIX) program, the customer's item number will display in the Cust item no field when you enter your item number.

Click OK to display additional information about the item, including Weight per UOM (maintained in Branch Item Maintenance), Alt description and Xref (maintained in Enterprise Item Maintenance), the item type, and inventory balances, skipping the entry of the other fields. Pricing for the customer/item is listed. See Display Prices in Effect.

Cust item no

Optional
30 alphanumeric

Enter the customer's item number or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the item from a list.

Customer item numbers are case-sensitive. If you enter BOX and the customer's number is Box or box, the program displays the message Enter a valid customer item number when you click OK.

Pricing branch

Required
4 alphanumeric

Accept the displayed branch, enter another branch, or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the branch from a list.

Sales UOM

Required
4 alphanumeric

Select the unit of measure for this item or leave blank to use the Sales UOM for this item from the Branch Item Maintenance (IMB) program.

Date ordered

Required
10 date

Accept your login date, select the date this customer plans to place an order, or enter a date shortcut.

Qty ordered

Required
11 numeric

Accept 1 or enter the quantity that this customer plans to order.

Choose the appropriate options:

To

Do This

Display the customer item number you entered so that you can check spelling and case

Click Customer items. See Display Customer Item Numbers. Click OK to return to this program.

Display the price for this item and customer

Click OK.

The program displays additional information about the item, including Weight per UOM (maintained in Branch Item Maintenance), Alt description and Xref (maintained in Enterprise Item Maintenance), and the item type and inventory balances.

Pricing for the customer/item is listed. See Display Prices in Effect