Defining Purchasing Attributes

If you are using PeopleSoft Purchasing, use the Define Items and Attributes - Purchasing Attributes component to enter data that PeopleSoft Supply Planning requires.

• On the Purchasing Attributes page, define the lead time and the primary buyer for the purchased item.

• On the Item Supplier page, define the suppliers from whom you can purchase the corresponding item.

  PeopleSoft Supply Planning recommends this supplier to PeopleSoft Purchasing for each planned order. If you do not specify a supplier for a purchased item, PeopleSoft Supply Planning creates a planned order without a supplier. In this scenario, you can use the purchase order load process to assign a supplier to the item. PeopleSoft Supply Planning ranks multiple suppliers for the same item based on the values that you define in each supplier's corresponding Priority field.

• Define a ship-to location that represents an Inventory business unit. When you set up a purchase option, you can define a ship to location as an attribute only if the item has purchasing attributes. If an item has purchase attributes defined but no ship to locations, the system assumes that the item can be ordered at any Inventory business unit.