Master Buy Agreement

Selecting this option on the Vendor Contracts form allows you to accumulate quantities of this item on the Purchase Order Builder activity, to determine the best quantity break available. All PO lines being combined under a Master Buy Agreement must have the same unit of measure.

This feature is vendor item specific: a vendor can specify some items under a Master Buy Agreement and make other items unavailable for the Master Buy Agreement.

In the Purchase Order Builder form, each time an item that is marked as a Master Buy Agreement item is added to (or removed from) the Item grid or a PLN is selected (or deselected) in the Planning grid, the system takes into consideration the additional quantity and recalculates the quantity cost break. The new cost is displayed and updated on each row where the item, unit of measure, and costs are the same. If the Master Buy Agreement flag is set for an item, the system combines quantities of all like items that have the same unit of measure.

The Master Buy Agreement calculation excludes lines with items where the unit of measure is different.

The Master Buy Agreement setting applies only to the calculating of quantity breaks on the Purchase Order Builder activity. Once a purchase order is created from the builder, adjusting the quantities on other forms will not take into consideration other lines. In the Purchase Order Lines form, when you change the order quantity on a PO that was created by the PO Builder, a message warns you that the cost may have been determined by a Master Buy Agreement. The cost will not be recalculated.