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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. |
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter a supplier needed in the main exercise.
Windows:
Supplier
General exercise for Enter Supplier
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to create different sourcing rules.
Windows:
Sourcing Rule
This sourcing rule forces the automatic sourcing to choose between all internal suppliers (connected to the purchase part), and to create a customer order line with the supply code Int Purch Trans. That is, the goods will be delivered from the internal supplier via your site to the customer.
This sourcing rule directs automatic sourcing to choose an internal supplier (connected to the purchase part), and to create a customer order line with the supply code Int Purch Dir. That is, the goods will be delivered directly from the internal supplier to the customer.
This sourcing rule directs the automatic sourcing to simply create a customer order line with the supply code Invent Order. That is, the goods will be delivered from your site's inventory to the customer.
This sourcing rule directs automatic sourcing to simply create a customer order line with the supply code Purch Order Trans, with delivery from supplier XX-170 via your site to the customer.
Note: As you understand, it is possible to enter an enormous amount of different sourcing rules. In this exercise you have just entered a few.