Purchase orders are populated using vendor attributes. If those attributes, such as cost price, change, you can update your catalog directly within a purchase order in two ways:

During purchase order creation or editing (all attributes)
When viewing a purchase order (individual attributes)

The vendor attributes available to be updated are:

Cost Price
Landing Cost Price
Vendor Reference
Vendor Product Name
UOM
MOQ

Note: By default, Inventory Planner syncs vendor attributes directly from your connected platform if they're available. While you can edit vendor attributes in Inventory Planner, if they are synced directly from your connected platform the next nightly sync will override any updates you've made.

If you would like to manage vendor attributes directly in Inventory Planner, please contact Support.

Updating the catalog when creating or editing a purchase order

Note: This option will update all the vendor attributes on a purchase order. If you only want to update a specific vendor attribute, use the other option.

When you're creating or editing a purchase order, you can overwrite any of the vendor attributes that appear on the purchase order. To save those changes to the catalog, check the "Update vendor attributes for line items variants" box at the bottom of the page before saving the purchase order:

On saving the purchase order, the changes will be pushed to the catalog.

If you have saved the purchase order without checking the box, you can click "Edit", check the box, make any additional changes, then save the purchase order to push the changes to the catalog.

Updating variant attributes when viewing a purchase order

If your purchase order was created in another platform or has already been synced to another platform, you cannot edit it. However, you can still update vendor attributes when viewing a purchase order.

To do so, click the "Actions" button on the top right-hand side, then click "Update vendor attributes for line items variants".

This will open a modal pop-up window where you can see all the vendor attributes you have available to update.

Choose which attributes you want to update, then click "Apply" to push the updates to the catalog.

Pulling vendor attributes into a purchase order

Note: This will only be available when you can edit a Purchase Order. A purchase order can be edited if you manage it in Inventory Planner.

You may want to pull the latest cost price or other vendor attributes from your catalog into a purchase order. To do so, click Actions > Reload, and check the "Vendor settings" option.

You can also use this option to update other fields. Learn more about that here.

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