How You Capture Supplier Discounts on Purchase Order Lines

You can capture supplier discounts from the base price of goods and services. You can enter discounts for both new and existing purchase orders.

These are the cases when you capture discount on purchase order lines:

When there is an agreed price in the agreement but you need to capture additional supplier discounts.
When there is no agreement, and you need to capture supplier discounts.

Note: You can apply the discount to all purchase order lines with a single action initiated from the purchase order header.

Use the Lines region to enter the details of supplier discounts on purchase order lines. Key attributes to consider here are:

Base Price: The original price per unit of the item or service offered.
Discount Type: The type that indicates whether the discount value is an amount or percentage.
Discount: The value that indicates the discount percent or amount of the purchase order line.
Discount Reason: The description of the reason for the discount.
Price: The discounted price per unit of the item or service offered.

Examples of Supplier Discounts on Purchase Order Lines

You can specify discounts either in percentage or in amount, and you can specify a reason for the discount.

This table provides an example of a supplier discount in percentage.

Base Price	Discount Type	Discount	Discount Reason	Price
10.00	Percent	10	Marketing Campaign	9.00

This table provides an example of a supplier discount in amount.

Base Price	Discount Type	Discount	Discount Reason	Price
10.00	Amount	2.00	Marketing Campaign	8.00