As of Release 3.0, you have the option of carrying out settlement accounting with regard to conditions on the basis of a points system.
This allows you to weight the materials of a vendor independently of their price.
Material "steel 1" from vendor Smith costs $ 100 per ton. Material "steel
2" costs $ 5 per ton. At the end of the year, vendor Smith grants a volume
rebate of 3% on the total business volume achieved over the period, provided
that your firm ordered at least 100,000 points worth of materials from him.
You are awarded 10 points for each ton of material "steel 1" ordered, and 20
points for each ton of "steel 2".
In placing your purchase orders, you can take into consideration how many tons
of "steel 1" or "steel 2" you need to reach the 100,000 points mark and
fulfill the precondition for the granting of the rebate.
The standard system includes a new dimension "points" and a corresponding unit of measurement "P".
There are two new fields - "Points" and "Points unit" in the purchase order item and in the purchasing info record. In the field "points unit" you can only use units of measurement with the dimension "points".