MeRLIN Buyer Portal Knowledge Base

Menu Path: Business Administration >> Document Numbering Format

You can decide how Item Number, Contract Authoring Number, Contract Number, Supplier Codes and Supplier Address codes need to be created (User Defined or Automatically Generated) in MeRLIN under this sub-menu. Let us see this in detail.

1. Choose the Organization Unit. The code configuration you provide will be applicable only for this selected Organization Unit.
2. You can choose either Item Number, Contract Authoring Number, Contract Number ,Supplier Code, or Supplier Address codes configuration set up.
3. Manual Input: This option is available for Item numbering and Supplier code, in the respective master, the user can provide the desired unique name to the part.
4. Auto-Generated by MeRLIN: The code will be generated by MeRLIN as per the configuration you set up in the following steps.
5. Sample Item Number is displayed, depending upon the configuration you set up.
6. Select the attributes by clicking on the check boxes, if you want the attribute to be displayed in the Code automatically generated by MeRLIN, and provide the input in the field.
7. Provision to move the attribute up.
8. Provision to move the attribute down.
9. You can also provide the Sequence start number for the autogenerated codes.

Note: You can only have one category attribute in the Part Number definition. Category attributes are – Category Area, Category L1, Category L2, Category L3, and Lowest Category.