Using Supplier Material—Exercises

IMPORTANT
If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Create Supplier

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Supplier

  1. Open the Supplier window.
  2. Create C.S.C. Rome as a supplier with supplier number XX1020.
  3. Create C.S.C. Cape Town as a supplier with supplier number XX1030.

General exercise for Creating Supplier

Create Purchased Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Inventory Part
Receive Inventory Part
Supplier for Purchase Part

  1. Open the Inventory Part window.
  2. Create Lilac Tire Paint as an inventory part and give it part number XX88-421.
  3. Enter Purchased as the part type and yourself as the planner.
  4. Click the Inventory Part/Default Locations tab and enter a default picking location.
  5. Click the Inventory Part/Cost tab and update the estimated material cost.
  6. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for Yellow Tire Paint (XX88-579) and for Tire (62-869).
  7. Receive 500 pieces each of the two different paints into a picking location.
  8. Connect the two paints to supplier XX1020 and the tires to supplier XX1030.

General exercise for Creating Purchased Inventory Part
General exercise for Receiving Inventory Part
General exercise for Connecting Supplier to Purchase Part

Required Data

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you the required data that is used in the exercises below.

Site Purchase Component Method
Your own Supplier Material

General exercise for Entering Site

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you the flow used for providing a supplier with material or components that the supplier needs to either manufacture or pack parts that you have purchased.

Windows:
Purchase Order
Ship Supplier Material
Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line

Sending Material to Supplier

  1. Open the Purchase Order window.
  2. Create a purchase order to buy 100 tires from C.S.C. Cape Town. Note/write down the purchase order number.

Note: The tires should be treated with tire paint before their delivery, and you need to supply C.S.C. Cape Town with the paint. Each tire needs two bottles of paint of each color.

  1. Select the part order line. Then right-click and click Supplier Material. Enter the components Lilac Tire Paint and Yellow Tire Paint.
  2. Go back to the Purchase Order window, and release the purchase order.
  3. Select the component part line and reserve it by right-clicking and then clicking the appropriate option.
  4. Print a pick list by right-clicking in the upper part of the window and then clicking the appropriate option.
  5. Open the Ship Supplier Material window. Then right-click and click the appropriate option to ship the material to the supplier.
  6. If required, you can undo the shipment of components (This can be done at any point before all of the purchase parts have been received). 
    Open the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window, right-click and then click the appropriate option to undo the shipment to the supplier.   
  7. Open the Supplier Material for Purchase Order Line window and analyze the results.