From the documentation on Buyers.

You can have the following buyer connections:

• It is mandatory to specify a buyer for the suppliers in the supplier record. Do this in the General sub-tab of the Purchase tab, the Supplier window.
• A buyer can also be connected to the purchase part in the purchase part record. Do this in the General tab in the Purchase Part window.
  • My add - This is a site-specific record.
• A user default buyer can also be entered in the Sites per User window.

The following presents the relationship between the connections:

• If a buyer is defined only for a supplier, it is set as default for the purchase requisitions and purchase orders for that supplier.
• If a buyer is also defined for a purchase part, it is set as default for the purchase requisitions with that purchase part, while the buyer for the supplier remains the default for the purchase orders.
• When converting a purchase requisition to a purchase order, the default buyer from the purchase requisition is carried over. However, you can use the buyer from the supplier by selecting the Use Default Buyer Code from Supplier check box.
• If a buyer is also defined for a user (regardless of buyers defined in purchase part and/or supplier), it is automatically set as default both for manually created purchase requisitions and manually created purchase orders, i.e., the buyer on the user overwrites any buyer on the Supplier and purchase part.

A given buyer can always be manually changed.

So, if a buyer is defined on the purchase part (unique per Site), this will carry through to the system-generated PRs and any POs created from such PRs. This will also carry through to any manually-generated PRs as long as there is no Buyer defined for the User/Requisitioner in the Sites per User page.

Hi Matt,

If you set up a Buyer on the Purchase Part, but the Purchase Order has multiple lines, and the Purchase Parts have two different Buyers.

Then how will IFS know which Buyers to select.

Ex: Purchase Order “123”

Purchase Part “A1” - Buyer = Alex
Purchase Part “A2” - Buyer = Matt

How will be the buyer?

Thank you,
Alex
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@Alex_Mee When converting purchase requisition lines to a purchase order, “when working with multiple purchase requisition part lines and/or no part lines where the supplier is the same although different buyers exist on the individual lines, the buyer is retrieved from the supplier.”

How is your customer filtering PR lines on which to take action, by Supplier only or by Buyer & Supplier?