Associating commodities with contracts

You can associate commodity groups and codes to a contract record to add items for a sale or a purchase as part of the contract. Commodity groups and codes help you categorize and manage contracts and their items and products. You can search for contracts by commodity, report spending on a commodity, and track commodities supplied by specified vendors.

1. In a contract application, display the record that you want to update.
2. Select the Associate Commodities action.
3. In the Commodity Groups table window, click Select Commodity Groups.
4. Choose the commodity groups by selecting the corresponding Commodity Group check boxes.
5. Click OK.
   The selected commodity groups are added in the Commodity Groups table window.
6. In the Commodity Codes for Commodity Group table window, click Select Commodity Codes.
7. Choose the commodity codes by selecting the corresponding Commodity Codes check boxes.
8. Click OK.
   The selected commodity codes are added in the Commodity Codes for Commodity Group table window.
9. Click OK to close the Associate Commodities window.