Creating Vendor Records

You must create vendor records in a telnet session. They cannot be created in Millennium or in GUIcat.

  1. Open a telnet session.
  2. Press "O" for "ORDERING and receiving subsystem"
  3. Press "A" for "ADDITIONAL ordering and receiving functions"
  4. Press "V" for "VENDOR file maintenance"
  5. You will be prompted for your initals and password. Enter your personal initials and password.
  6. Press "M" for "MAINTAIN vendor records"
  7. Press "A" for "ADD entry"
  8. Complete the fields according to the following table:
    Prompt What to type
    Vendor Code 5-character code for the vendor
    Vendor Name Full name of the vendor
    Account Leave blank; we have accounts for each title, not each vendor.
    Address1 Vendor's address, all on one line.
    Separate street address from city, state, zip with the dollar-sign "$"
    Address2 Leave blank
    Claim Cycle Leave blank
    Code1 Leave blank
    Code2 Leave blank;
    If we should choose to do electronic claiming, we can code this "s"
    Telephone Vendor's telephone in format XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Fax Vendor's fax in format XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Email Address Email address of the vendor's representative.
    Not the email for electronic claiming
    Code3 Leave blank
    Code4 Leave blank
    Note1 Leave blnak
    Note2 Leave blank;
    If we should choose to do electronic claiming, we will enter information related to that in this field.