AP Supplier Group Maintenance

Exploring

This program lets you define a supplier group that is used to create, execute and process a group payment.

A supplier group consists of a primary supplier and multiple linked downstream suppliers (i.e. secondary suppliers).

Things you can do in this program include:

  • Add, maintain and delete supplier groups

  • Create and remove links to secondary suppliers

  • Export secondary supplier information to Microsoft Excel

  • Print secondary supplier information

  • View additional details related to the primary supplier and its currency

  • View currency exchange rate details

  • View or load multimedia for the primary supplier

This program is accessed from the Program List pane of the SYSPRO menu:

  • Program List > Accounts Payable > Setup

This is a single large remittance to a primary supplier instead of multiple payments to many individual suppliers.

This type of payment is processed using a supplier group. A supplier group comprises a primary supplier (who receives the payment) and multiple associated downstream secondary suppliers. A supplier group is created using the AP Supplier Group Maintenance program.

A group payment for suppliers is created, executed and processed using the AP Group Payments program.

This is the supplier against which the single remittance for payments to multiple secondary suppliers is processed (i.e. recipient of the aggregate payment). This single remittance is known as a group payment.

This supplier is paid together with its associated primary supplier via a single remittance (i.e. group payment).

Suppliers for group payments are defined using the AP Supplier Group Maintenance program.

Starting

You can restrict access to the eSignature transactions within a program at operator, group, role or company level (configured using the eSignature Setup program).

Electronic Signatures provide security access, transaction logging and event triggering that gives you greater control over your system changes.

Controls access to the New primary supplier function in the AP Supplier Group Maintenance program.

Controls access to the Delete function in the AP Supplier Group Maintenance program.

Controls access to the maintenance of supplier groups in the AP Supplier Group Maintenance program.

You can restrict operator access to programs by assigning them to groups and applying access control against the group (configured using the Operator Groups program).

  • Currently, you can only create supplier groups within the same company.

Solving

This message is displayed when you attempt to delete either your primary or secondary supplier if an incomplete group payment run exists against the supplier group.

Ensure that you're deleting the correct supplier group or have executed and processed the group payment run associated with this supplier group.

This message is displayed if there is a duplicate record of the same secondary supplier in the Secondary Supplier list view.

Ensure that you delete the duplicate record of the secondary supplier.

This message is displayed if the code entered within the Primary supplier field isn't associated with a supplier (i.e. doesn't exist).

Ensure that you enter the correct code associated with the primary supplier (i.e. group supplier).

This message is displayed if the code entered in the Supplier column of the Secondary Supplier list view isn't associated with a supplier (i.e. doesn't exist).

Ensure that you enter the correct code associated with the relevant secondary supplier.

This message is displayed when tabbing off your entry in the Supplier column in Secondary Supplier list view if this code matches that of the Primary supplier field in the toolbar.

Ensure that you enter the correct code associated with the relevant secondary supplier.

This message is displayed when you select the New primary supplier icon and your current supplier group hasn't yet been saved.

Select Yes to save the current supplier group or alternatively select No if you don't want to save your current supplier group.

This clears the Primary supplier field in the toolbar, the information in the Primary Supplier Details pane and removes the links to the secondary suppliers which you defined in the Secondary Suppliers list view. The cursor is then placed in the Primary supplier field.

This message is displayed when you try to save your supplier group and the mentioned secondary supplier already exists in another supplier group.

Select Yes to proceed with saving your supplier group as is, or alternatively select No to cancel.

  1. Indicate the code associated with the group supplier in the Primary supplier toolbar field and tab off your entry.

    The information relevant to the Primary supplier then appears in the Primary Supplier Details pane.

  2. Indicate the code associated with the secondary supplier(s) that you want to associate with the group supplier (i.e. Primary supplier) of the supplier group in the Supplier column of the Secondary Supplier list view.

  3. Select the Save function.

Supplier group data is maintained in the ApSupplierGroup table. This table maintains the links between the primary supplier and its linked secondary suppliers.

The company ID and currency associated with the suppliers are also stored in this table.

This is possibly because you either have one or more blank records or a duplicate record of the same secondary supplier within your Secondary Supplier list view.

Using

  • Columns in a list view are sometimes hidden by default. You can reinstate them using the Field Chooser option from the context-sensitive menu (displayed by right-clicking a header column header in the list view). Select and drag the required column to a position in the list view header.

  • Press Ctrl+F1 within a list view or form to view a complete list of functions available.

Referencing

This lets you create a new supplier group.

This lets you delete the current supplier group (i.e. the group supplier and its associated secondary suppliers).

Any group payments created for the supplier group must be executed and processed prior to the deletion.

This saves the details you entered or changed.

Indicate the code associated with the group supplier for which you want to add, delete or maintain a supplier group. Alternatively you can use the browse function to search for an existing supplier.

This supplier must belong to the company that you are currently logged in to (i.e. local company).

Each supplier group includes a group supplier and one or more secondary suppliers.

Field Description

Supplier

This indicates the Primary supplier code.

Select the smart link to access additional details related to the primary supplier, or to load one of the following programs:

  • Supplier Query

  • Suppliers

  • Multimedia

  • Browse on Suppliers

  • SRS Document Archive Viewer

Supplier name

This indicates the name or description associated with the Primary supplier.

Currency

This indicates the transacting currency associated with the Primary supplier.

Select the smart link to access additional details related to this currency, or to load either the Currency Maintenance or Multimedia program.

Secondary suppliers can belong to more than one supplier group and can also be a primary supplier (i.e. group supplier).

Field Description
Delete

This deletes the data record currently highlighted.

You can't delete a secondary supplier if it is being used in a group payment run that hasn't yet been executed and processed.
Print This lets you output the information displayed in the list view to a printer destination of your choice.
Export to Excel

This lets you export the information currently displayed in the list view to Microsoft Excel.
Search text

Indicate the text according to which you want to filter your records in the list view.

Use the Clear Search icon to clear the text entered in the text box.
Edit Options

This copies the current data record highlighted in the list view.

This pastes the copied record with all of the columns that currently appear on the list view as well as the hidden columns.

This pastes the copied record with only the columns that currently appear on the list view.

This duplicates the record currently highlighted in the list view.

This filters records in the list view according to the indicated text and lets you to amend all records with the new text accordingly.

Company

This indicates the code associated with the company to which the secondary supplier belongs.

This is the company that you're currently logged in to as you can only add links to secondary suppliers within the same company.

Supplier

Indicate the code associated with the relevant secondary supplier.

Name

This indicates the name or description of the secondary supplier entered.
Currency

This indicates the transacting currency of the secondary supplier entered.