Companies application

The Companies application maintains detailed information about vendors, manufacturers, and other companies.

Vendors can have parent companies. There can be multiple vendor locations for a single company. Using reports, you can determine total year-to-date expenditures with a single organization, regardless of its location. Company information must be entered in the Companies application first so that other modules, such as Inventory and Purchasing, can access the information.

On the Performance tab, you can analyze how well a vendor performed on purchase orders. You specify the criteria for the performance analysis. You can review data such as the vendor's compliance with requested dates, the average number of defects that were created, and the average length of time that parts were in different statuses during the receiving and inspection process.

With the Companies application, you can perform the following tasks:

• You can associate commodity codes with a vendor.
• You can add a commodity group to the database.
• You can add or modify a commodity code in a commodity group.
• You can bookmark a record so that I can view it later.
• You can create a company record.
• You can delete a record.
• You can duplicate a record.
• You can view contract information that is related to the company.
• You can view location information that is related to the company.