PO560 - Bid Response Load

This program will edit bid responses and price catalog information provided
by vendors, and report on any errors. It will also optionally load the bid
response or price catalog records to the bid file. The records loaded can then
be maintained with PO16.1 (Bid) and PO16.2 (Bid Response) or used to do bid
analysis with PO216 (Bid Analysis). Any records that cannot be loaded may need
to be loaded manually. You must run this program once for each vendor response
in order to do bid analysis.

Bid response and price catalog records must reference a valid item master
item. If the vendor does not provide complete information on an item, the
system will attempt to default the necessary information. When information is
defaulted for an item, the system will generate exception messages on the
report. Exception messages fall into three severity levels: warning, error,
and fatal. A fatal exception is one that prevents the bid or catalog record
from loading to the bid file. An error exception is one in which the system
has defaulted information that is normally provided by the vendor, such as
vendor item number. A warning exception occurs when the system defaults
information that a vendor may normally not provide, such as your item number.
You may choose the exception message severity level that you wish to see on
the report in the Report Severity field.

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

    APCOMPANY  - Used to validate the Accounts Payable company.

    APCPYVND   - Used to default vendor or company information.

    APHLDINV   - Not used by this program.

    APVENCLASS - Not used by this program.

    APVENGROUP - Used to validate vendor group or to default vendor group.

    APVENLOC   - Used to validate and default Accounts Payable vendor location
                 information.

    APVENMAST  - Used to validate the vendor ID and obtain vendor display
                 information.

    ICCOMPANY  - Used to validate the Inventory Control company.

    ICVALUOM   - Used to validate item unit of measure.

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

    POCOMPANY  - Used to validate the purchase order company information.

    POITEMVEN  - Used to validate and obtain vendor item information.