Item Region Supplier Location Setup

A Ship to location can be associated to a region, allowing for management of similar ship to locations at the region level. Item region supplier locations provide a location-pricing relationship that is specific to the item and region. You can associate many regions to an item and define different supplier priorities for the same item based on region. This level of flexibility in supplier prioritization ensures the right suppliers are assigned to the purchase orders, without driving all of the maintenance down to the item ship to location.

When you create the online requisition or when you source an existing requisition, the system references the ship to location to determine the appropriate region. If the ship to location is assigned to a region and a lower level override for the Item Ship To Location does not exist, the system will accesses the item region supplier location to get the priority 1 supplier and its supplier location. The system derives the pricing location that you defined for the supplier location. It then looks to the item-supplier relationship to access the pricing for the derived pricing location.