The buyer group in Microsoft Dynamics AX/365: How to use it?
Editor's Note: All test results described in this article are based on Dynamics 365 for Operations, product version 1611.
The business context of defining buyer groups to manage a supply chain is quite clear.
In companies that implement Microsoft Dynamics AX or 365 for Operations, purchasing activities are never done by just one person, so the work has to be divided. How? Different approaches exist. I often see a split by commodity, so certain buyers buy certain materials. We also have seen buyers only dealing with certain suppliers and split their work that way. It depends on the industry.
In engineer-to-order industries, buyers are narrowly involved in engineering design and a close relationship with the supplier is crucial. Buyers are more likely organized by supplier. In make-to-stock industries, like consumer goods, many commodity items are bought from large distributors where a supplier relationship is not as close and it makes more sense to organize buyers by commodity so each buyer is responsible for a range of items.
When we say "divide the work", what "work" are we talking about?
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The firming of planned purchase orders has to be divided between buyers
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The mailing and confirming of purchase orders has to be ...
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