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We are in the process of implementing consignment stock internally across companies in IFS9. We have come across one or two features in IFS which makes me question whether the system was designed to handle this scenario. Is anyone working in this way in their environment and willing to share experiences?

The setup is as follows.

  1. Demand Site - Site A/Company 1. Supplier for Purchase Part set to Ownership Consignment, purchasing from Site B
  2. Supply Site - Site B/Company 2 -  Customer Consignment Stock for customer (Site A)

When we create and release a distribution order, the Ownership setting on the Supplier for Purchase Part is ignored, and the ownership is set to Company Owned. We can however update this manually.

The Customer Order linked to the distribution order is created with the Consignment flag checked automatically.

If we set the Distribution Order to Automatic Receipt, it does not perform the receipt if the Ownership on the PO is Consignment.

 

A bit further down the road in the testing and all seems to be working OK.

The issue with the “Auto Receipt” not working was due to stock existing in the destination location with Company Ownership.

Don’t seem to have a solution for the Consignment Flag on the PO (generate on Release of the Distribution order) other than a database trigger.

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