You can set massively the Vendor, Carrier, Ship Date, and the cost for multiple Orders at once. To do so, select the prebooks Prebooks lines to be updated and click on the Mass Update button. 

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From the Bulk Purchasing Mode, you can allocate products both from the Future Inventory and On Hand Inventory. For more details please read Allocation Process from the Bulk Purchase Mode.

Additional options

The following options can be found under the Actions column:

• Add: This option will add the item to a new PO or an existing PO if these conditions are met: the PO must have a "PA" status (Pending Approval), same Vendor and Ship Date. If the system doesn't find a PO that matches the status, vendor and ship date information a new PO will be created.

• When clicking on More actions, the options Work On, This product cannot be sourced,  Weekly Average Cost, Fill from Open Market, Frequent Vendors, and tags will be available.

• By clicking on "Custom Fields Gear Icon," this will show the Cut Point, Sleeve, Notes, and Characteristic that were entered for that product line item in the prebook order (if applicable).

  

The system displays a color indicator that gives you information about the date and time of the Prebook creation. This is only done when the setting for Show highlighted lines of the Prebook based on the creation date is enabled.  For more information please refer to the Purchase Order Options.

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Once activated, the system will highlight the prebook with a color based on the date and time of the Prebook creation.  If prebooks were created within the last hour, they will be highlighted in red;  between one and two hours they will be highlighted in gray, while items created within more than 3 hours will be in yellow. By placing the cursor over the Prebook number, users will see additional details.

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In order to improve navigation in the Bulk Purchase Mode, there are several shortcuts available. Below is how they work.

1) Once you are in the Bulk Purchasing Mode click on Would you like to be faster on this page?

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2) The system will display all the key combinations you can use to perform frequent actions per product line. If you are using a Mac,you can also press cmd instead of Ctrl.

The system allows users to export the information filtered in the Bulk Purchasing Mode. To do that, please follow the next steps:

The system allows you to choose which columns should be displayed in the Bulk Purchasing Mode. To do that, go to Purchase Orders>>Add PO, click on the gear icon next to the Actions button.

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Check or uncheck the boxes you want to be displayed and click on Save.

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The system allows associating other tags according to your company's needs. This action can also be carried out while creating or editing a Prebook line. Read How to Associate Tags to Prebook Lines for further information.

The system allows printing Distribution Labels for Prebook items from the Bulk Purchasing Mode. To do this, follow these steps:

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Ui step Go to Purchase Orders>>Add PO. The system will open the Bulk Purchasing Mode. Ui step  Use the available filters to find the Prebooks for which you want to print the Distribution Labels and select them. Ui step Use the available filters to find the Prebooks for which you want to print the Distribution Labels and select them.  Ui step  Select the Printer name (or the PDF downloading option) and click on Print. Image Modified Ui step Once you print the Distribution Labels, they will look like the next ones: