Procuring Project Miscellaneous Demand with DOP—Exercises
Required Data
Registering Project Miscellaneous Demand to Activities
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you the
required data that is used in the exercises below.
- Enter a demand line for the part that you require.
- Make sure the value in the
Supply Option field is Dynamic Order Processing.
General exercise for
Registering Project Miscellaneous demand
Releasing Activities
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the
data that must be in place before you can perform the
main exercise below.
- Release the activities in your subproject structure .
General exercise for
Executing
Activities
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of these exercises
is to show you how to procure project miscellaneous demand through DOP (Dynamic
Order Processing).
Windows:
Project Navigator/Demand/Misc. Parts
Project Navigator/Supply/Shop Orders
Project Navigator/Supply/DOP Headers
Project Navigator/Activity
Project Navigator/Connections
Project Navigator/Activity
Activity/Demand/Misc. Parts
Activity/Connections
Activity/General
DOP Header
DOP Order
DOP Order/Supply
Purchase Order
Shop Order
- Right click on the demand line in the
Demand/Misc. Parts tab and select the Create Project Supply
Request menu option.Click OK to create a DOP Header.
- Click on the
Supply/DOP Headers tab to see that a record has been entered for the DOP header.
- Click the
Connections tab to view the
DOP header connection to the project activity. The System Connection check
box will be selected, indicating a system connection between the project
activity and DOP
header.
- Right click on the
DOP header record in the Supply/DOP Headers tab and select the
DOP Header Detail menu option to view the DOP header.
- Open the DOP Header window and query
for the DOP header you created, or right click on the DOP header
record in the Supply/DOP Headers tab and select the
DOP Header Detail menu option.
- Right
click on the header and select the Create DOP Structure menu
option and then click Create Structure.
-
Click Yes to create the DOP structure.
-
Click the
Structure tab to view the created structure.
- Right
click on the header again and select the Release All menu option to
release all the DOP orders created for the DOP structure.
- Click on
Costing tab and on the navigator, right click on the top node of the DOP
structure and select Calculate DOP Cost.In the dialog that opens up,
enter your site and select all DOP cost types.
- In the
Structure tab, right click and then click the DOP Order Detail
menu option to view the DOP order.
- In the
DOP Order window, click the
Supply/Summary tab and check that a pegged order has been created for the
part.
- Select the record then right click and click Go to Supply
menu option to view the created supply for the part.
- Go to the created supply pegged to the DOP order. If it's a purchase
requisition, convert it to a purchase order then release it. If it's a shop
order, then go directly to step 8.
- Go back to the
Costing tab of the DOP header and calculate
the DOP cost, as described in step 6 of previous exercise.
- Go to the project activity that has been connected to the part. Refresh
the window and see if cost have been retrieved back to the activity. Note
that the cost calculated in the
Estimated Accum Cost field in the
DOP Header/Costing
tab will give you committed cost back in the project activity.
- Go back to the purchase order. Confirm and receive it.
- Close the DOP order.
- Observe the progress in the project activity. Since this is the only DOP
order connected to this activity, the progress will be 100%, if the chosen
Progress Method is DOP Header.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3. Note that the cost calculated in the
Actual Accum Cost field in the
DOP Header/Costing
tab will give you used cost back in the project activity.
- If the created supply is a shop order, then release it.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3.
- Reserve then issue the material to the shop order.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 and observe what happens to the committed and used
costs back in the project activity.
- Report operations on the shop order.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3, and observe the hours and costs retrieved in the
project activity.
- Receive the shop order.
- Close the DOP order.
- Observe the progress in the project activity. Since this is the only DOP
order connected to this activity, the progress will be 100%, if the chosen
Progress Method is DOP Header.