The Bulk Purchasing Mode allows the creation of multiple purchase orders from presold units for different vendors at once.

Komet Sales automatically consolidates all the identical items pre-sold in units as long as the following is met: same truck date, ship via option, product description, and same unit type. 

Follow the steps described on the Creating Multiple Purchase Orders Using the Bulk Purchasing Mode article.

For Prebooks items in units that have been consolidated, the system will show an ellipsis (...) icon, when hovering over the ellipsis multiple prebook numbers and customer names for that line item will be displayed, as the system automatically groups similar units based on same truck date, ship via option, product description, and same unit type. 

Additionally, when the Units Consolidation feature is enabled in the Bulk Purchasing mode screen, the Prebook line items in units will be consolidated based on the range of the Truck Date From and Truck Date To filters applied on this screen. The consolidation of these units will take into account the criteria selected. The are three options to separate the items:

• By Product and Truck Date: the system will group all the lines with the same product and with a truck date between the Truck Date From and Truck Date To filters applied on this screen.
• By Product: the system will group all the lines with the same product, regardless the truck date.
• By Product and Customer: the system will consolidate all the lines with the same product and customer in one single line.

To enable this feature, follow the steps below:

If the company has the Future Sales setting enabled, the system will display the option to fill the prebook with the Future Open Market Inventory by clicking on "Fill From Future Open Market" option within the "Actions" column drop-down arrow. To learn more about this refer to the Fill From Future Open Market article.

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When the Future sales setting is enabled, you can purchase additional items to those that appear in the prebook. Once you confirm the units amount and it is greater than the required in the prebook, the system will ask you to confirm the action. Those additional units will be added to the Open Market Inventory unless you enable the setting Prebooks in units must be billed as boxes, for more information please read Automatic Billing & Allocation Options.

Finally, before creating a new PO for products in units, Komet Sales will automatically validate if there are existing Open Market units that may be used to supply the purchase need. When the cursor is in the Qty field and the product line can be filled with an Open Market product, a message will popup as follows:

 Fill from On Hand Inventory (please read Allocations for further information)

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Fill from Future Inventory (please refer to Fill From Open Market for further information)

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When you click on Fill it the next window will be displayed for continuing the Allocation process either for products on Future Inventory or On Hand Inventory.