Handle Supplier Material

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. Before you can send the material, you should manually reserve the material in inventory.

Note that in the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window, there may be component lines for which the Backflush check box may have been selected. These components do not require any reservation or picking; they will be automatically issued at purchase order receipt of the purchase part or top part.

Prerequisites

• The purchase order header must have been released.
• The material lines must have been entered.

System Effects

• The material will be reserved in inventory after performing the reservation. This is an automatic reservation to ensure that the user does not bypass every reservation of supplier material from other reservations for demands. A pick list can also be printed.
• The inventory from which the parts are available for reservation, depends on the supply code you have set and whether the purchase order line has been connected to a project activity. 
• If you have connected the purchase order line to a project activity and set the supply code to Project Inventory, parts can be reserved from the project inventory of the connected project only. 
• If you had connected the purchase order line to a project activity and set the supply code to Inventory Order, parts can be reserved only from the standard inventory on behalf of the connected project activity.
• If the purchase order line is not connected to a project activity, reservation can only be done from the standard inventory.
• DOP (dynamic order processing) can also create purchase order lines with the supplier material passed on to the purchase order line from the DOP structure. In such cases, the supply code will be set to either DOP Order or Inventory Order, depending on whether the part is pegged to the DOP structure. For such supplier material parts having the DOP Order supply code and a project connected purchase order line, parts can be reserved from the project inventory of the connected project only.

Window

Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line

Related Window Descriptions

Supplier Material for PO Line
Reserve Parts for Purchase Order
Available to Reserve for Purchase Order

Procedure

1. In the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window, query for the purchase order for which you want to reserve the component parts.
2. Select the material line, right-click and then click Reserve Part. In the lower pane of the Reserve Parts for Purchase Order window, indicate the quantity you want to reserve.
3. Click OK and this will close the window. The material has been reserved.
4. You can analyze the quantity available for reservation by selecting Available to Reserve from the Operations menu. This will open the Available to Reserve for Purchase Order window.
5. Once the material has been reserved, you can print the pick list from the header. On the header, right-click and then click Print Purchase Order Line Pick List to print a pick list for the purchase order line. If you want to print a pick list for all reserved lines, right-click and then click Print Pick List.