Associate Commodities

You use the Associate Commodities dialog box in a contract application to add or modify commodity groups and codes for a contract. Commodities are items that you can add to a contract for sale or purchase as part of the contract. After associating commodities with contracts, you can search for contracts by commodity, report spending on a commodity, and track commodities supplied by specified vendors.

You can associate or remove any commodities on a contract that has a Waiting for Approval (WAPPR) or Draft (DRAFT) status.

This dialog box is available in more than one application.

To associate commodity groups with a contract:

  1. In a contract application, display the record to which you want to associate commodities.

  1. From the Select Action menu, select Associate Commodities. The Associate Commodities dialog box opens.

  2. Click Select Commodity Groups. The Select Commodities dialog box lists commodity groups.

To select a commodity group, select the Select Record check box. You can select more than one commodity group. To cancel a selection, clear the check box. To select all commodity groups in the result set, select the Select All check box next to the Commodity Groups column header.

  1. Click OK to copy the groups to the Associate Commodities dialog box. Next, you will add the commodity codes for the groups you selected.

  2. Click Select Commodity Codes. The Select Commodities dialog box opens and lists the commodity codes for the selected groups..

Select one or more commodity codes.

  1. Click OK to copy the commodities to the Associate Commodities dialog box.

  2. Click Save Contract .

See Also

Select Commodity Groups

Select Commodity Codes