Linked Purchase and Transfer Order for Subcontractor

REQUIREMENT / BUSINESS VALUE

Manufacturing companies dealing with subcontractors require information and overview about the Purchase Order for the Vendor (Subcontractor) and the Transfer Order representing the destination of component consumption on a subcontractors location. There is no link between these 2 orders in BC, which leads to a gap of information. Additionally, manufacturing companies need a shipment document for the subcontractor that covers both information (Purchase Order No. and Transfer Order No.=Shipment).

Solution

The solution is a new table which will link the information of the subcontractor purchase orders with the belonging transfer order.

Overview of the new page "Purchase Transfer Link Lines": 1.png 2.png

Setup

Open the Manufacturing Setup and set a loaction code for the field "Components at Location". This is necessary to create a transfer order for a subcontractor purchase order via the new page "Purchase Transfer Link Lines". The created transfer order will use this location code for the field "Transfer-from Code". 3.png

Check the functionality

Create a new released production order for an item which will be manufactured by a subcontractor. 4.png

Open the subcontracting worksheets and calculate the subcontracts 5.png 6.png

Carry out the action message to create the subcontractor purchase order:

a) If the boolean "Generate Transfer Link Lines" is active then the data of the new created purchase order will also get transfered in the table purchase transfer linked lines else it will not. 7.png 8.png b) Example if the boolean is not active: Create a new released production order: 9.png Open Subcontracting Worksheets and Carry out the action message for this production order with the boolean Generate Transfer Link Lines set inactive: 10.png No further entry has been created in the table purchase tranfer link lines: 11.png

With the action "Update Purchase Transfer Link Lines" on the page "Purchase Transfer Link Lines" it is still subsequently possible to add entries to the table with the data of the subcontractor purchase orders which were created when the boolean "Generate Transfer Link Lines" was inactive 12.png 13.png

With the action "Create Transfer Order" it is possible to create the transfer order for the components which are needed at the subcontractor location 14.png 15.png 16.png

Open the planned Transfer Order to check if the field "Purchase Order No." is filled with the correct data in the lines. In the header the field will only be filled if every line has the same purchase order no.

a) only one line: 17.png b) more then one line with different purchase order nos.: 18.png c) more then one line with the same purchase order no.: 19.png

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