MIMS Supplier File 1

[Warren]

We have five districts that use some of the same suppliers. Our prior system allow changing or adding remitt-to addresses as needed. MIMS does not. Since we have merged what were five districts into one global supplier file, this has caused us some problems.<br>
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We can make sure that a supplier is identified correctly so when it is selected by a purchasing office it is for the corrrect remit to address.<br>
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We can work with our supplier to get one remitt-to address.<br>
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But there are some supplier that want checks send to different addresses depending on what they did for us, or one company that may have more that one service center.<br>
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If anyone else had this type of problem I would be interested in any solutions you found.

 

[willis]

What about using the Supplier Mnemonic and setting up different supplier branches all subordinates to the Mnemonic and government id.

 

[AddOns]

One approach would be to use the additional addresses on the supplier file. You can have any number of user defineable addresses for a supplier but they can all use the same supplier number. This allows you to use one supplier for all purchases/invoices but have any number of addresses. The PO print program and A/P check printing programs would need to be changed to handle the appropriate address for each district. These addresses are stored at the district level, therefore you can set up a address code of 'PO' for order address for each district and then change the purchase order print program to use the 'PO' order address as the address to print/fax on the PO. This is just one example. You may also want to develope a report to print these different addresses for a 'Supplier Report'. By using this method you get around the problem of setting up a different supplier anytime the supplier address is different.