Attribute

An attribute is a field that holds information you can use to group records for reporting, inquiry, and processing. Specifically, attributes hold information about:

  • Activities for Project Accounting and Billing and Revenue Management

  • Accounting units and accounts for Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Inventory Control, Purchase Order

  • Assets for Asset Management

  • Cash codes for Accounts Payable and Cash Management

  • Customers for Accounts Receivable, Order Entry, Billing, Warehouse

  • Items for Inventory Control, Purchase Order, Order Entry, Warehouse, Production Order, Requisitions

  • Requesting locations for Requisitions

  • Inventory locations for Inventory Control

  • Leases for Lease Management

  • User analyses for Strategic Ledger

  • Vendors for Accounts Payable, Invoice Matching, Purchase Order

  • Buyers for Purchase Order

Example: Using attributes with items

For example, you may want to find all items that belong to a specific sales class. Using item attributes, you can run a report for all items in a specific region, for example, the Western sales region.

Example: Using attributes with vendors

For example, you may want to find all vendors who sell a specific type of product, for example vendors who sell clothes, housewares, or over-the-counter drugs. Using vendor attributes, you can run a report for all vendors who sell clothes.

Another example would be finding vendors with a geographic location or a person responsible.