Punchout and Default Account

We're not using Punchout so I don't know how it works in detail but can't this be set up on the vendor side?  And pull the distribution info from there into Lawson?

I tried adding a distribution in AP10 however it doesn't seem to make a difference.

I was really referring to the actual vendor.  Doesn't Punchout take you out to the vendor's web site where the order is created and then pulled into RSS when done?  I was thinking that the distribution would be applied on the vendor's site and then pulled into RSS.

The punchout vendor wouldn't have any information about accounting units or accounts, so it wouldn't have anything to send back.

We just went live with a production pilot of punchout and this is definitely one downside of using eProcurement. You can set a default Accounting Unit and Account on the RSS profile, but if your order contains any variety, your users are forced to click on the line and use the change function once the order is back in RSS

If you provided that information to them they would.  We've had two office supply vendors; Office Depot and more recently Staples.  Both of their web sites were set up so the end user's default accounting unit and the office supply account was applied to all the lines on their order.  This is absolutely necessary for us, since we don't use Punchout, so that when the vendor sends the monthly invoice spreadsheet we know how to distribute.  Maybe it's a limitation of Lawson Punchout that it can't pull in account info.  That being said I think you would have to educate your end users on using the Account tab in RSS to default the account to all the lines pulled in by Punchout.

No, I agree in a non-punchout situation. We also use Staples and each user has default accounting information.

You can also do some of that with punchout by getting that default information onto the RSS requisition header (either by RQ01 or entered by the user). I think Jay is more concerned about both having a default and also situations where the default needs to get overrridden. For that, I think you're stuck with a change transactiopn after the data comes back from the vendor.

Punchout works after you have created a viable header record in RSS and the data coming back really only updates requisition lines.

You CAN send additional data to the punchout vendor, but I consider that feature to be very, very, clunky. We'll end up with over 3,000 requesters once we're fully deployed and it would require separate maintenance for each user. Tough to maintain.

I agree.  I think you are stuck.  For us it would be simple though.  Anything from Staples goes to the office supply account.  Wether it's a pencil or a space heater.  If we punched out to HP for computers everthing would go to the minor equipment account. 

I have done some testing and if they set the account information before starting the Punchout transaction then it will default onto every line and be fine. Right now I am just looking through the javascript and seeing if I can figure out a way to set the account info for them. It looks like there is only one account they will use 'Office Supplies' when doing punchout so that should simplfy things considerably.