To Whom It May concern: My company currently uses Lawson Procurement - portal 9.0.0.3.169 technology 9.0.0.3.291. My question is around setting up items in the item master. For receivable items we currently set up items with an item # that is tied to accounting codes, UOM, and specified pricing. What happens in this scenario, when the item # is entered with the quantity, the pricing, UOM and accounting information is populated. Recently, we have asked that the same be done for non-receivable items such as software licenses, but what was provided was a table in the item master where the buyer has to search this table to find the item and select it to get the pricing, UOM and accounting to populate. If the buyer tries to insert the item # from the their list without using the existing table, nothing happens so they are forced to use this table which adds time to the process and in my opinion non-value added. Is there a way to have these non receivable items set up in the item master to function in the same manner as the receivable items? Please advise!
To Whom It May concern:
My company currently uses Lawson Procurement - portal 9.0.0.3.169
technology 9.0.0.3.291. My question is around setting up items in the item master.
For receivable items we currently set up items with an item # that is tied to accounting codes, UOM, and specified pricing. What happens in this scenario, when the item # is entered with the quantity, the pricing, UOM and accounting information is populated. Recently, we have asked that the same be done for non-receivable items such as software licenses, but what was provided was a table in the item master where the buyer has to search this table to find the item and select it to get the pricing, UOM and accounting to populate. If the buyer tries to insert the item # from the their list without using the existing table, nothing happens so they are forced to use this table which adds time to the process and in my opinion non-value added. Is there a way to have these non receivable items set up in the item master to function in the same manner as the receivable items? Please advise!
Once you create an item in IC11 it automatically becomes a receivable item. Also, X type (special) items are also receivable items. The only non-receivable item type is S (service). That being said, you could set up vendor agreements and create service items and assign the uom, cost and account there. Then create a company shopping list with these service items setting up the line to "Use AU from RQ Loc". I just tested this scenario and everything populated ok in RSS except for the vendor item; not sure why that didn't pull from the contract. The items flowed through to PO23 and PO20 just fine. I'm not saying that we would do this. We insist that the requester enter this detail manually on their reqs for service items. But this could be a solution.
Jon