Order Inquiry using the Pricing and Availability Window

When you enter an item in the Pricing and Availability window, the related pricing and availability information of that item is displayed for you. This window enables you to query for the price and availability of an item without creating a sales order, reservation, etc. The Pricing and Availability window enables you to:
  • Perform price and availability checking without creating an order
  • Perform price and availability checking without placing demand or reservations
  • Easily create an order or quote if the query results in a customers decision to buy the item

Inquire on Price without creating Sales Order 

Usually the pricing engine displays the price of an item on the order line. Now, without creating a sales order, you can view the list price and selling price of an item using the Pricing and Availability window. 
The Pricing and Availability window merely displays the price and stock status of an item. 

It does not confirm that the displayed price or quantity will be the same on the actual order line. Keeping the above in mind, the Pricing and Availability window gives you the entire pricing picture of a given item. Price Breaks, Price Lists, Modifiers, Adjustments are all displayed in the Pricing and Availability window so that you can see all the price information at a glance.


Inquire on Availability

Now, without creating a sales order, you can view the availability of an item using the Pricing and Availability window. The item number needs to be entered in the query block and all the information related to the item is displayed in the results block.

The Pricing and Availability window merely displays the stock status of an item. It does not confirm that the displayed price or quantity will be the same on the actual order line. Keeping the above in mind, the Pricing and Availability window gives you the entire availability picture of a given item. You can view the warehouse, available quantity, reservable quantity and earliest available date for an item’s availability. Item information like UOM, lead time and other attributes are also displayed. Related items with their selling price and availability can also be seen.




Automatically create quote or sales order from Price and Availability inquiry 

When you query an item and the result set displays its pricing and availability data, you can then save the item details to the Current Selections region. This region acts as a placeholder to contain multiple items, that can be used to create quotes or sales orders. Click Save as Quote or Create Order to specify an order type and then create a quote/sales order. You can also open the newly created quote/sales order in its appropriate form, this is launched from the Pricing and Availability window

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