Specifies the number of the vendor that you bought the items from. To see the vendor numbers that have been set up in the Vendor table, click the field.
When you enter the vendor number here, the program will retrieve information about this vendor from the vendor card.
If there is a primary contact attached to the vendor that you select in this field, the program copies the contents of the Primary Contact No. field on the vendor card to the Buy-from Contact No. field and updates the Buy-from Contact field with the name of the primary contact.
You can change the vendor number as long as you have not posted the shipment. When you enter a different vendor number, however, the program will ask you to confirm the change. You will have to answer the following question before the program will make the change:
Do you want to change Buy-from Vendor No.?
If you answer Yes, the new vendor number will be entered on the purchase header and existing lines.
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| All purchase headers contain two vendor numbers: A vendor number (Buy-from Vendor No.) that indicates who ships the order and a vendor number (Pay-to Vendor No.) that indicates who invoices the order. |
Unless you specify otherwise, the program will automatically enter the vendor number from this field in the Pay-to Vendor No. field on the purchase header, indicating that the invoice has been sent from the same vendor as the items.
If the Pay-to Vendor No. field on the vendor card contains a different vendor number, the program will retrieve the vendor number from that field. All vendor-related information about invoicing, discount, statistics and so on refers to the vendor who sends the invoice, not the vendor who ships the items.
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