TPC Entering Buying Multiple for Suppliers

Pricing

When entering or updating a product, regardless of the Buying Multiple quantity, the Cost price and RRP are always per individual saleable unit.

• Individual saleable unit = a single item as intended for sale to the end customer
  • e.g., a lipstick, a bottle of cough liquid, a fragrance gift set (that shouldn’t be broken up), or a packet of aspirin.

Buying Multiple quantity

When entering a Buying Multiple quantity, the supplier needs to consider what the order quantity represents – an individual saleable unit, or a group of that product (e.g., a box, bag, or tray containing multiple items).

Products that are ordered and supplied as individual saleable units have a Buying Multiple of 1 in TPC.

However, if a product is always distributed in lots (or multiples) of the end product, then Buying Multiple will be set to how many are supplied at a time.

Example

Fancy Soaps are handmade and sold as single blocks to customers. They are always supplied to pharmacies and other retailers in boxes of 10, never individually. The cost per unit is $3.06 and the end customer pays the RRP of $4.99.

In the screenshot below you can see the ABC Supplier has set this up correctly in TPC while XYZ Supplier has not:

When the retailer orders 10 (or 20 or 30) Fancy Soaps, the supplier will receive the order as 1 (or 2 or 3) boxes of Fancy Soaps.