What is Bulk Purchasing?
Bulk purchasing allows you to buy items in large quantities to get a cheaper price per unit. Bulk purchases typically require a separate bulk purchase account to be set up for a particular vendor. If you have a bulk account that you need to set up, please contact Prima support for assistance.
How do I use Bulk Purchasing?
Bulk Purchasing is done through the requirements list in POP > Requirements. At the bottom of the page, there is a Bulk Purchase button.
In the bulk purchase window, the top portion will show the list of items that are status ‘Requested’ that are available for bulk purchasing. Clicking an item in the top portion will reveal the list of all available vendors in the bottom portion.
- To be available for bulk purchasing, an item must have at least one vendor who requires a minimum quantity of units to be purchased. For example, you can see on item MMMC4836MY below, vendor MMM requires a minimum qty of 4 be purchased. The minimum qty levels are typically set by the vendor on catalogue updates.
With the item selected in the top portion, you can use the bottom portion to select a vendor, edit the qty you want to purchase, and select different supplier delivery codes. Once you’ve made your changes, be sure to click ‘Update Req Lines’ to save those changes.
After you have made all the necessary changes, select the items you want to bulk purchase and click ‘Complete.’ This will edit the requirement line of each item so it can be purchased.
- Note: This process does not purchase the selected items, but it does change the settings on lines in your requirement list so that when you do purchase these items, they will be purchased in bulk.