Knowledge Base Reference: 100077 Dated: 04/06/2003
Buying Group Item Reference Numbers
Buying Groups allocate their own Item Reference Numbers for each vendors items.
To maintain a cross reference between your item code and that assigned by each
Buying Group requires the creation of an 'Item Range List'.
A Range List is required for each Buying Group and contains both your item code
and the corresponding code used for your item by the Buying Group.
Range List details are defined using the following menu stream:
Maintenance/Buying Group Definition/Item Range List/Buying Group Item Ref:
As entries within the Range List must be unique and non-blank an artificial
reference code is created for the Buying Group Item Reference when inserting
new entries to the Range List.
This artificial reference consists of your item code preceded by an asterisk.
eg if your item code is 12345 then the artificial reference will be *12345
The artificial reference may be left in place if the actual Buying Group
Item Reference is not known.
When this is the case the *12345 will be interpreted as either blank or as
'*Not Specified' when used on UBF submissions and other places.