Enter Price Breaks

When you click Pricing in the Vendor Price Maintenance (VMM) program, you can enter or change this vendor's prices for different quantities of the item.

The program displays information about the item and vendor followed by a line for each price break:

Field Name	Displays
Item number	The item number you entered or selected followed by its description
Vendor number	The vendor you selected followed by the vendor name
Sequence number	The number that identifies this vendor item
Currency	The currency in which the prices are quoted
Purchasing UOM	The unit of measure in which you purchase this item from this vendor
Effective	The first date this pricing goes into effect
Expiration	The last date this pricing is in effect
Min ord qty 1 - 9	The minimum quantity you must order to qualify for the associated price Note 1 is the only valid quantity for a consignment item. See Background: Vendor Item Maintenance.
Unit price 1 - 9	The price the vendor charges for one unit when the associated minimum quantity is ordered

Note
Whether or not expired pricing is included is controlled by a program option.

Choose the appropriate options:

To	Do This
Add pricing for this vendor and item	Click Add. The Add button is not available if this is a consignment item.
Delete pricing	Highlight a line and click Delete. See Delete. The Delete button is not available if this is a consignment item.
Copy pricing	Highlight a line and click Copy. See Copy. The Copy button is not available if this is a consignment item.
Display or change pricing	Highlight a line and click Select.
Print the listing of pricing records	Click Print. See Print.
Exit pricing for this vendor and item	Click OK. See Vendor-Item Pricing.

Enter or change data in these fields:

Field Name

Type / Max Length

Action / Description

Effective date

Optional
10 date

Accept the login date, enter the date on which this pricing becomes effective or enter a date shortcut.

This field cannot be changed if this is a consignment item.

Expiration date

Optional
10 date

Select the end date, enter a date shortcut, or leave blank to use 12/31/9999 as the expiration date.

Min order qty 1 - 10

Optional
10 numeric

Enter the minimum quantity you must order to qualify for the unit price the vendor offers.

Quantities are in the purchasing unit of measure.

Unit price 1 -10

Optional
14 numeric in the format 999999999.99999

Enter the price per unit in the vendor's currency for this minimum order quantity.

For example:

	Min order qty	Unit price
1	1	10
2	24	9.85
3	60	9.66

Choose the appropriate options:

To	Do This
Change a field	Move the cursor to the field(s) and make changes. Click Apply to accept the changes or click Cancel to reject the changes.
Delete a saved record	Click Delete.
Go to a related program	Click Jump.
Display changes to this pricing record	Click Audit. See Display an Audit Trail. Note This button displays if audit trail logging is activated for the Vendor Item Pricing (V1AP) file.
Adjust all prices by a percentage	Click Percent. The program prompts Enter percent to mark up or mark down. Enter a positive number to increase or a negative number to decrease all prices.
Return to the list of prices	Click OK. See step 1. If you added this price record, the program prompts Effective date. Click OK to return to the list of prices.