Enter Components to Send to Supplier
Explanation
When outsourcing you have to send the material to your supplier, which is
needed to either manufacture or to pack the parts that you in turn will
purchase.
When entering the purchase order line, any components entered in
a product structure in IFS/Manufacturing Standards is copied to the purchase
order line. In case a product structure is not used, you can manually specify
the components. These parts will be sent to the supplier
with each purchase order.
You should also reserve the material in inventory if it is not automatically
done by the system.
This function does not allow you to charge, i.e., sell
the material or the components to your supplier. Therefore, when the material is
sent to the supplier it is always considered as work in progress and accounted
as such.
Depending on the requirements or practices of your industry, instead of
sending the component parts with each purchase order, you can backflush them.
Backflushing involves transporting the component material to a special
backflushing location in advance, and automatically issuing the components as
and when the purchase parts (top parts) are received from the supplier. There is
no need for reservation or picking, as the components are to be directly issued.
In case a product structure is not used (or when you
have manually entered a component line), you must select the Backflush check box and
specify a backflushing location in the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line
window. Otherwise these values would be used by default for every product
structure, in IFS/Manufacturing Standards. Note that backflushing is enabled per
component line; therefore you could choose to backflush some components and send
the other components through the normal supplier material flow.
Prerequisites
- The purchase order line must have been
entered and saved.
- Prior to reserving the material, you have to
enter it and indicate the quantity.
- The Purchased Component Method field on the
Site/Sales and
Procurement tab should be set to Supplier Material for the
system to enable issuing component parts using the
Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window.
System Effects
- The component parts will be connected to the purchase
order. The material will be reserved in inventory after performing the
reservation.
- If you had chosen to backflush, the automatic issuing of component parts
from the backflushing location will be enabled. This is a direct issue to
the supplier, and will take place as and when purchase parts and top parts
are received (at purchase order receipt).
Window
Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line
Related Window Descriptions
Supplier Material for PO Line
Purchase Order
Purchase
Order/Part Order Lines
Procedure
In the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window:
- Query for the purchase order to which you want to connect the component parts.
- Click New.
- In the Component Part field, specify the component
part (the inventory part) that will be connected to the purchase. Either
enter the code for the sales part or select it from the List of
Values. If applicable, you can indicate a condition
code in the Condition Code field.
- Enter the date on which the supplier needs the component
parts.
- In the Qty per Assembly field, specify how many
component parts are needed to manufacture or pack each purchase part.
- To issue components using backflushing, select the Backflush
check box. Also specify a desired picking location as the backflushing location
in the Backflush
Location field.
- In the Supply Code field, select either
Inventory Order or Project Inventory.
(The Project Inventory supply code is allowed only for purchase order lines
that are connected to project activities. In such cases, parts can be
reserved and picked only from the project inventory of the connected
project)
- Save when completed.
- Repeat steps 3—9 until all the component parts are
entered. Then close the
Supplier Material for
Purchase Order Line window.
In the Purchase Order window:
- Query for the purchase order to which you want to
connect the component parts.
- On the Part Order Lines
tab, select the desired purchase order line and choose Supplier Material
in the Operations menu. This opens the
Supplier Material for
Purchase Order Line dialog box.
- Click New.
- In the Component Part field, specify the component
part (the inventory part) that will be connected to the purchase. Either
enter the code for the sales part or select it from the List of
Values. If applicable, you can indicate a condition
code in the Condition Code field.
- Enter the date on which the supplier needs the component
parts.
- In the Qty per Assembly field, specify how many
component parts are needed to manufacture or pack each purchase part.
- To issue the components using backflushing, select the Backflush
check box, and specify a desired picking location as the backflushing location
in the Backflush Location field.
- In the Supply Code field, select from either
Inventory Order or Project Inventory.
(The Project Inventory supply code is allowed only for purchase order lines
that are connected to project activities. In such cases, parts can be
reserved and picked only from the project inventory of the connected
project)
- Save when completed.
- Repeat steps 3—9 until all the component parts are
entered. Then close the
Supplier Material for
Purchase Order Line window.