Tier members

In Contract Management, tier members are used to assign a company and location, or requesting location, to a contract tier.

Tier members are created automatically when members are created, and are eligible to receive a negotiated price on a manufacturer contract. After you have identified and created the contract members, tiered pricing, and tier qualifiers, you then assign the tier to a qualifying tier member.

A purchase method is defined at the tier member level. This allows different companies or locations within an organization to determine whether they buy from a manufacturer or distributor. A purchase method is required for each tier member before the Release Members action can be performed.

A purchase method defines what type of contract a member purchases against. The options are From Manufacturer, From Distributor, From Manufacturer And Distributor, Not From Manufacturer Or Distributor. A purchase method can be assigned to a Tier Member in one of these ways:

• On a member group line. It then defaults to the Tier Member
• On a Member
• On a Tier Member