Alternate product groups

Alternate product groups serve these purposes:

  • When assigned to stock or catalog products, indicates that specific product information must be included on all electronic communications between you and the vendor.
  • When assigned to nonstocks, provides default settings for nonstocks.

Electronic communications

Some vendors require that specific product information, such as sales, rebate, and inventory settings, is included on all electronic communications. To identify the products for which you must provide this information, create alternate product groups with a reporting designation and then assign stock and catalog products to the appropriate group.

Alternate product groups are set up in SA Table Code Value Setup. Each group is represented by a code, up to eight characters in length, which might be defined by the vendor, and a description. Select Report to Supplier to indicate that the sales, rebate, and inventory information for products that are assigned to this group must be provided to the vendor on all electronic communications.

You can assign a stock or catalog product to an alternate product group in Product Setup, Product Catalog Setup, or Product Adjust Non-Stock/Direct Order Entry. This optional setting is validated against the alternate product group table values.

Nonstock default settings

To apply the values from the Alternate Product Group record to a nonstock in Sales Order Entry, you can specify an Alternate Product Group in the Non-Stock window . These values include Vendor, Ship From, Product Category, Product Line, and Price Type. The Alternate Product Group values override any existing values specified for the nonstock.

Note:  A ship to value is not specified on the Non-Stock window, but if the Ship To from the Alternate Product Group is applied to the nonstock, the value is written to sales order line item record.

If the product you specify in the Non-Stock window has an associated product or catalog record, the settings you can use from that record include the Alternate Product Group, but you can override it.