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Purpose

The Suppliers tab is where the Suppliers, Plants and Mix Design lists are maintained. A given Supplier can have many Plants along with having many Mix Designs. Both Plants and Mix Designs are "owned" by a Supplier.

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Users (field technicians) can be prevented from entering Draft values in the Field module. Simply remove the check mark in the respective Allow Draft Values field above the appropriate Supplier, Plant or Mix Design grids.Image Removed Draft values can be restricted on the supplier or mix design level, and in addition can be restricted by material type as well.  To do this click on the Allow Draft Values option and choose which materials draft values should be enabled for.

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Tip

Since suppliers and plants tend to be more predictable (can be entered ahead of time), a firm may choose to not allow Draft values to be entered for suppliers and plants, but allow Draft mix design values to be entered.

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Warning

Use caution when using the batch reassignment utility on suppliers. Because plants and mix designs are associated with suppliers, choosing a new supplier will force you to select a new plant and mix design. Unless all of your underlying plants and mix designs are the same for the supplier you are changing, you should probably not use the batch reassignment utility in this case.


Deleting Records

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The examples below will be using Supplier values, but the same rules apply to Mix Designs and Plants. 

Values on this page can be deleted from the list of supplies by clicking on the 'X' icon located in the last column.

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Deleting a Supplier value will result in a few things

  1. Existing records with a deleted value will keep the deleted value but treat it as a 'Draft Value'
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  2. The deleted value will be deactivated given the status of 'Deleted'. You can find and restore this value by updating the search filter
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  3. You cannot create a new supplier with the same name of a previously existing suppler. You can choose to restore the old value from the 'Deleted' filter, change the name of the old value, or use a unique name for the new value. 
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