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Associating Sources of Supply with Accounts (End User)

You can capture wholesaler to retailer relationships by product category and extend the source of supplier relationships to specify the percent at the category level. You can also extend the percentage to the product level and override the percentages for a particular promotion. You can enter a value in the Percentage field for a source of category supply, and then click the Update button to allocate this value to the corresponding account category product.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Product Distribution.

To associate a source of supply with an account

1. Navigate to the Accounts screen, then the Accounts List view.
2. Drill down on the Name field hyperlink, and click the Source of Category Supply view tab.

   The Account Category and Source of Category Supply lists for the account appear.

3. In the Account Category list, query on the Category Name field and complete the other necessary fields.
4. In the Source of Category Supply list, create a new buying group.
5. Click the select button in the Buying Group field.
6. In the Pick Account Suppliers dialog box, select the suppliers that you want to associate with the category, and click OK.
7. Complete the necessary fields.

   The following table describes some fields.

   Field	Comments
   Site	The location of the buying group.
   Percentage	The percentage of the total category associated with the supplier.

8. Click Products to create the product records and associate the supplier accounts associated with the category to the products.

   This information can be viewed from the Source of Product Supply view.To determine which products are added automatically when you click Products, see Viewing and Modifying Distribution List Products (End User).

9. Click Update to copy or update the Percentage values from Category to Products.