Managing Vendor Relations

The processes of purchasing goods or services and paying for them can vary depending on the requirements of the companies involved. In some companies, payments for goods or services are made to a different vendor than the vendor that supplied those goods or services.

In Acumatica ERP, you can set up the system to automatically handle vendor relations in documents (such as purchase orders and AP bills), to ensure that the vendors being paid are the ones that should be receiving and processing payments. In this chapter, the process of setting up and managing vendor relations is described in detail.

This functionality is available only if the Vendor Relations feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.

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Vendor Relations Overview

In Acumatica ERP, you can track the vendor that receives payment and the vendor that supplies the needed items, where these vendors are different. You can specify these vendor relations on the Vendors (AP303000) form, so that the system will handle these relations in documents (such as purchase orders, purchase receipts, and Accounts Payable bills and debit adjustments).

Setting Up Vendor Relations

In Acumatica ERP, you can define the appropriate vendor settings to set up vendor relations, so that once you use a particular vendor in a purchase order or purchase receipt (the one who supplies goods or services), the system will use an appropriate vendor account in the AP document created based on that purchase order (the one to which the payment should be made).

Vendor Relations in Accounts Payable Documents

The vendor relations functionality may affect the AP bills and debit adjustments that can be created manually or automatically based on purchase orders or purchase receipts.

To Set Up Vendor Relations

You set up and view vendor relations by using the Vendors (AP303000) form. On this form, you can specify the pay-to vendor of a supplied-by vendor, and you can view the supplied-by vendors of a pay-to vendor.

Managing Vendor Relations

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