Receiving inventory and pricing updates

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When using purchase/receive inventory window to receipt purchase orders, the inventory item costs are updated.  The sell prices are not update automatically, is there a procedure to update the sell prices from the purchase/receive screen?  Since you can not go directly to the maintain inventory window from the part numbers in the purchase/receive window, the process to update the sell pricing becomes very cumbersome.  Also, once the purchase order is received you can not double click on the part numbers to bring up the inventory window to recalculate the sell prices. 

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    For GAAP, the PO is used as a Document between you and the Vendor as an acknowledgement the Vendor agrees to sell this item at the agreed PO pricing. Therefore when you receive the Vendor's Invoice the item pricing would not change from the original PO price. Based on this understanding, you can enter a PO, save it, then call the PO back up again and drill down on each item which open the item Maintenance Screen, choose the Arrow on the Sales Price, and hit the recalc button at the top of the item screen, hit ok, then save the item, which takes you back to the PO.
    Also, if you are on version 2015SR2 or higher you can go directly to the PO when you are receiving it (new feature) and drill down on each item, which opens the item Maintenance Screen, choose the Arrow on the Sales Price, and hit the recalc button at the top of the item screen, hit ok, then save the item, which takes you back to the PO. Go to each item and recalc, then you can hit the "Receive" button at the top of the screen and the PO will be received. Just make sure you do the "Receive" part last after you have recalculated all the items on the PO.
    Hope this helps. Did not find any other way because you can't recalc a sales price of an Item based on a PO that has not already been saved.

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    For GAAP, the PO is used as a Document between you and the Vendor as an acknowledgement the Vendor agrees to sell this item at the agreed PO pricing. Therefore when you receive the Vendor's Invoice the item pricing would not change from the original PO price. Based on this understanding, you can enter a PO, save it, then call the PO back up again and drill down on each item which open the item Maintenance Screen, choose the Arrow on the Sales Price, and hit the recalc button at the top of the item screen, hit ok, then save the item, which takes you back to the PO.
    Also, if you are on version 2015SR2 or higher you can go directly to the PO when you are receiving it (new feature) and drill down on each item, which opens the item Maintenance Screen, choose the Arrow on the Sales Price, and hit the recalc button at the top of the item screen, hit ok, then save the item, which takes you back to the PO. Go to each item and recalc, then you can hit the "Receive" button at the top of the screen and the PO will be received. Just make sure you do the "Receive" part last after you have recalculated all the items on the PO.
    Hope this helps. Did not find any other way because you can't recalc a sales price of an Item based on a PO that has not already been saved.

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    Kim, Thanks for the response for the suggestions. We run our whole business through Sage 50 and have for 15 years. What we are looking for is a more streamlined procedure for updating prices in the inventory after the PO is receipted. Our procedure is open the customer sales order, order parts using a PO, when the vendor invoice shows up receive the inventory and then put it on the sales order and recalculate the price if it is a part number that was in already our inventory list. The problem is that recalculating the price is a multiple step process. Since you can not double click on the inventory item, to get to the maintain inventory window, when in the purchase/receive inventory window, you must open the maintain inventory window from another place. When ordering parts for sales orders you can put the part on the sales order then double click to get to the inventory record. When receiving parts for inventory stock, after receiving the PO we have to go to an inventory list, search on the part number, bring up the inventory maintenance screen, open up the price window to see if the price has changed and then recalculate. I realize that an automatic process for price updating is not realistic, but just being able to double click on the part number in the purchase/receive inventory window and having the inventory maintenance screen open would cut down on several steps.
    Thanks for listening.
    Stephen