I have a client who is a distributor. He has setup his items with base costs and prices. Some customers receive a different price, thus he has also setup price levels on a per item basis. However, for these customers who receive price discounts he also receives a cost discount from the manufacturer which he would like to be reflected on the purchase order. Purchase orders cannot use discount items and price levels only apply to customer prices—not costs.
So is it possible to create a purchase order from a sales order (or estimate) that then applies a discount to the cost on the purchase order? Programmatically, it would require looking at the price level on the sales order/estimate, then applying an associate discount to the appropriate items. Sounds like a lot of tedious programming.
Of course the client COULD duplicate his items lists with varying costs & prices, but that requires more overhead in maintaining the items list and still requires a manual process of ad hoc situations.