Road Map: Vendor Price Maintenance

Use the Vendor Price Maintenance (VMM) program to enter and change a vendor's pricing, landed costs and surcharges for an item and request a quote. See Background for more information.

Before you run this program each time

You should run these programs: None required

Before you run this program the first time

You should run these programs:

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Accounts Payable Options) to enter field labels for the Landed cost type 1 - 4 options and set the AP interfaced to purchasing? option.

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Help and Other Path Options) to set the Base path and Vendor folder options.

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Enterprise Options) to select a date display format for your enterprise, Branch Maintenance (TBM) to select a date display format for your branch, or User Maintenance (UIM) to select a date display format for an individual user.

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Inventory Control Options) to set the Update actual and average costs? option.

  • Numbering System Setup (XOC) program to set Request for Quote number assignment.

  • User Fields Maintenance (XMO) to set up custom fields your company uses.

  • Landed Cost Codes Maintenance (TMM) to set up landed cost codes.

  • Surcharge Codes Maintenance (TSCM) to set up surcharge codes.

  • Unit of Measure Codes Maintenance (TUM) to set up purchasing UOMs.

  • Enterprise Item Maintenance (IM) to set up inventory items for your enterprise.

  • Branch Item Maintenance (IMB) to set up inventory items for your branch.

  • Vendor Maintenance (VM) to set up vendors.

  • Document Output Parameters Maintenance (TDOC) to set up default output parameters for Request for Quote documents.

  • Vendor Document Profile Maintenance (VDM) to set up documents to send to vendors.

  • Audit Trail Maintenance (XAT) to activate system logging of entries and changes.

  • Output Device Maintenance (XDM) to set up the output devices you plan to use.

  • Date-Output Device Maintenance (ZE) to select your default output device and set whether you can override that device.

After you run this program

You will most likely run these programs:

  • Vendor Price Inquiry (VMQ) to display a vendor's pricing for an item.

  • Vendor Price Listing (VML) to print a vendor's pricing for an item.

  • Vendor Performance by Item (VAI) to display vendor cost performance, delivery performance, and product quality by item number.

  • Vendor Price Update (VCU) to update a vendor's pricing for an item in the Vendor Price Maintenance (VMM) program by a percent and optionally update the item's incremental cost.

  • Request for Quote Print Queue (VRFQPM) to process the print queue and add, change, and delete requests in the print queue.

  • Audit Trails (ATR) to print an audit trail report.