PO550 - Bid Creation

This program provides several steps in the bid processing cycle:
1) It creates new bids based on selections by purchasing class or
manufacturer codes or both.
2) It downloads newly created or existing bids to a file, which can be
transferred to a spreadsheet or other format to be sent to potential vendors.
3) It prints a report of items selected for a bid, which can also be used as
a paper bid request sheet to be mailed or faxed. This report contains an area
for the vendor to enter a vendor price and unit of measure.

Historical purchase quantities for each item are also calculated and printed
on the report or listed on the spreadsheet data. The purchase quantities are
based on purchases within a date range selected on the parameters form.

Selecting CSV in the File Type field causes the program to build a
comma-separated value file for use in Lawson Process Agent software. For more
information, see the WOMA Agents Procedures Manual.

Updated Files

    CKPOINT    - Used to determine if restart information exists.

    POBID      - Used to create bid records.

    POBIDITEM  - Used to create bid item records.


Referenced Files

    ICCOMPANY  - Used to validate the Inventory Control company.

    ICMANFCODE - Used to validate the Inventory Control manufacturer's code and
                 display the manufacturer's code description.

    ITEMMAST   - Used to validate the item and to obtain item descriptive
                 information.

    MAJORCL    - Used to validate purchasing major class.

    MINORCL    - Used to validate purchasing minor class.

    POCOMPANY  - Used to validate the purchase order company information.

    POLINE     - Used to validate and default purchase order line information.

    PURCHORDER - Used to validate and default purchase order information.