View Vendor Analysis

If you associate one or more vendors to an inventory item or stocked tool, you can use the View Vendor Analysis dialog box to compare information across multiple vendors.  For the selected item or tool, the system provides information such as total number of complete purchase orders, last price, last order date, and promised lead time in days, per vendor.

You can access this dialog box from the Inventory application or the Stocked Tools application.

To view the vendor analysis:

  1. From your application, display a record.

  2. From the Select Action menu, select View Vendor Analysis. The View Vendor Analysis dialog box opens, displaying a subset of comparative information in the Vendors table window.

  3. To view detailed information about a vendor, click View Details on that row. The Row Details open.

  4. Click OK to close the View Vendor Analysis dialog box.