Vendor location

If you have a vendor with multiple locations, you can define all locations for that vendor under a single vendor number. A vendor location represents an alternate physical location or address for a vendor. You define a vendor location as a remittance, a purchasing location, or both. One of the primary benefits of defining vendor locations is that you can report or inquire on payment processing and purchasing information for both an individual location and the vendor as a whole.

Example

You use ABC Supplies as your primary office supply vendor. ABC has a corporate office in Chicago to which you send your payments. ABC also has two regional warehouses -- one in Indianapolis and another in Minneapolis --from which you order supplies.

You could define a single vendor with two alternate locations. Define both of the warehouse locations as purchasing locations and specify that you want the location address to override the corporate address for purchases. Each would have the same vendor number, and you could inquire and report on information for just the Indianapolis location, just the Minneapolis location, or both locations combined.