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Purpose

The Suppliers tab is where the Suppliers, Plants and Mix Design lists are maintained.  Both plants and mix designs are associated to (owned by) a suppliers.

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Tip

Administrators need to plan for a regular review of Draft records. The Dashboard can also be used to easily identify any concrete sample or bituminous density test records that exist in the system with Draft supplier, plant or mix design records.

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It's critical that somebody own this active review of Draft suppliers / plants / mix designs. By making these Draft entries active, they become values that technicians can select in the Field module versus having to type them. In addition, it ensures better data integrity and avoids situations where "Plant 1" and "Plant #1" are entered and really mean the same thing, but to MetaField are really different values.

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Draft values can be reassigned in batch. Click the wrench icon in the respective grid. A pop up will be displayed that allows you to select a new supplier / plant / mix design. The system will batch reassign those sample records to the new value you want to use.

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This is batch reassignment utility is valuable when you need to take, for example, all "ABC-123" mix designs and reassign them to the "ABC123".

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