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Manufacturer Codes: When one vendor acquires another

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Bev Edwards
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4/8/2015 8:13 PM

    LeMaitre acquired Vasutech.

    In IC14, we had a manufacturer code of VASC for Vasutech. After the acquisition, the description for VASC in IC14 was changed to LeMaitre.

    The pricing had changed as well, but the items were left on a pricing agreement titled Vasutech.

    The original vendor code remained (4826), but the description was changed from Vasutech to LeMaitre.

    This doesn't seem to be the way it should have been handled and I've found many other similar instances.

    Can anyone share thier best practice of how they handle changes to items in Lawson when a vendor acquires another vendor?

     

    Bev

    Kat V
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    4/14/2015 5:04 PM
      I've never heard of a good way. Tyco-Covidien-Kendall are the nightmare. They get loaded based on what Cardinal called them one time vs the other that was loaded what GHX called them and another loaded what Premier called them.

      But for us, we change the IC11 Manuf codes and assign to a completely different PO25.
      Bev Edwards
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      4/14/2015 5:46 PM

        Thanks Kat.

        I think I may take this one step further and create a new Man Code in IC14, then update the IC11's with that new code.

        Then move the items to a new PO25.

        Way cleaner. The way it is now, I'm not even able to run clean reports on certain fields I want to link because the values don't match.