iManage Records Manager facilitates the distinction of warehouse vendors with a Vendor identifier option for boxes.
When this setting is enabled in your organization, a Vendor field is available on each relevant page of the barcode scanner operations application.
Vendor identifiers are prepended to box IDs to ensure that box identifiers are unique. These unique identifiers are supported throughout relevant iManage Records Manager applications.
The vendor identifier field is enabled if your organization has configured the Vendors feature for IRM. When a vendor identifier is entered, it's retained for all subsequent box operations, until it is changed or until the Windows account of the machine hosting the application is changed. This means that you can use the scanner as normal, without needing to scan the vendor identifier fields for each box transaction.
For more information about enabling this feature, including how to add vendor ID to reports, refer to Appendix 3: Configuring Warehouse vendor IDs section of iManage Records Manager Administration Guide, or of iManage Records Manager Administration Guide for Cloud Service Users, as applicable.
Checking if your organization has configured vendor identifier
To check if your organization has configured vendor identifier:
Start the application.
On the toolbar, select Checkout.
If a Vendor field is displayed, then your organization has configured vendor identifier.
If there's no Vendor field, then your organization hasn't configured vendor identifier.
If your organization hasn't configured vendor identifier, you can skip this section and proceed to Performing Operations.
Setting a vendor identifier
If the Vendor field is blank for a particular box operation, you can scan the value, or select 
and then select the vendor from the list.
The vendor you enter is retained and you don't need to scan or enter a value for this field again during your session, unless you want to change the vendor identifier.
Retention of vendor identifiers
The vendor identifier that you set is retained for all subsequent box operations, including scans, until the vendor identifier is changed, or until the Windows account of the machine hosting the application is changed.
This means that you can use the scanner as normal, without needing to scan the vendor identifier fields for each box transaction.
Changing a vendor identifier
When a vendor identifier is set, that vendor identifier is retained for all box-related actions. You can change the vendor identifier as required:
Start the application.
Select any box-related action from the menu. The Vendor field is displayed, populated with the last vendor entered.
You can enter the vendor manually, or scan the value.
To enter the vendor manually:
Select
.Select the vendor from the list.
To scan the value:
Select the Vendor field. The Vendor field becomes editable.
Scan the value.
The vendor identifier that you enter is retained for all subsequent box operations, including scans, until it is edited again, or until the Windows account of the machine hosting the application is changed.