Multi-vendor cross corp invoie to PO. We had Bryan, Molly, Cory, Brandon, Alan, and Steve on the call.

Currently we can do cross corp invoices to PO's. The hiccup seems to be with multiple vendors and making sure that the mapping is correct.

Molly logged in and showed us some examples. The goal is to be able to move inventory between systems without creating or setting up the items on the new system. Basically, they want to grab the info from the system and then use that info as quick as possible. The main source is the outbound invoice. It contains, potentially multiple items from multiple vendors.

Mapping on the main vendor (at the corp level). This is where the main invoice comes in at.

Then mapping on a per line item level. Each line item needs to be mapped to a different vendor based on what the invoice has. They want the line items to default to the same vendor name as the source invoice line. There is already a custom map option. The new functionality just includes a possible vendor switch as part of the mapping. They are looking to get a vendor drop-down on a per line item level. Currently, there is only a drop-down that allows you to select the item category. They still want the mappings... to help speed things up, but they want a vendor assignment to be part of the new mapping process.

If the vendor doesn't exist, be able to add it in on the fly and set the vendor type to inventory.

There is a new vendor based flag called the default vendor type (created by Steve but not fully cascaded through the system). They want to be able to use those flags to show up as a possible vendor option, vs just checking to see what vendors do have real items. They would like the vendor list to either look-up existing items or be flagged as an inventory vendor. Another possible option is show all vendors or do a perfect vendor name match.

They are using this cross corp functionality to setup new systems. They basically have a master corporation, that already exists, and then they just start transferring and selling back and forth and the items get pulled from master corps to the new corps.

An idea was submitted by Steve to go into the existing systems and flip vendors and vendor flags as a background task to make sure that the new feature is fully used. We may also want to add some code to help flip that switch as a vendor is added and then used on a PO.

There were some discussions on conditioning the application to help protect the companies. Sometimes the deeper we get, the more we actually have to code in some protection and safety measures.

See attached for a video recording of the meeting.