Community,
anyone has experience on below parameter “Allow Automatic Substitution of Parts” on below Customer window. If so, how to use it, what will be the scenario then? thank you.
Answer
Allow Automatic Substitution of Parts
Best answer by matt.watters
Setup required:
- Set the flag for Allow Automatic Substitution of Parts on the Site and the Customer.
- On the Part page, set P2 as an alternate for P1.
- For Inventory Parts P1 and P2, set Availability Check = YES.
- In the Alternate Sales Parts Base Data, set P2 as the Substitute Sales Part No for Sales Part No P1. If multiple substitute parts were required you could establish a substitution Priority here.
Test:
- Set Expected LT of P1 and P2 = 5. Recall the Availability Check uses the Expected LT in its calculation.
- Remove all on-hand inventory of P1.
- Adjust available inventory of P2 = 20.
- Enter a customer order line for (5) of P1 with a Wanted Delivery Date = TOMORROW and save.
- If a Complementary Parts dialog appears, ignore it.
- Sales Part automatically changes from P1 to P2.
Ron H
+12Hi
Thanks,
Chamath
We are still not sure how to use this option. Thank you.
+11Hi
I do not think this functionality is working.
In General, substituted part cannot be automatically selected due to below reasons.
· There can be lot of substituted parts for a one part and there’s no way to prioritize one from others
· The required qty of the Substitute part can be different from the original part required qty.
There was a discussion to find a technical solution for this, but it is not working in 24R2 as well.
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Setup required:
- Set the flag for Allow Automatic Substitution of Parts on the Site and the Customer.
- On the Part page, set P2 as an alternate for P1.
- For Inventory Parts P1 and P2, set Availability Check = YES.
- In the Alternate Sales Parts Base Data, set P2 as the Substitute Sales Part No for Sales Part No P1. If multiple substitute parts were required you could establish a substitution Priority here.
Test:
- Set Expected LT of P1 and P2 = 5. Recall the Availability Check uses the Expected LT in its calculation.
- Remove all on-hand inventory of P1.
- Adjust available inventory of P2 = 20.
- Enter a customer order line for (5) of P1 with a Wanted Delivery Date = TOMORROW and save.
- If a Complementary Parts dialog appears, ignore it.
- Sales Part automatically changes from P1 to P2.
If a response resolves your issue, please use "Best Answer" so that the thread can be closed and others can find solutions more easily. Regards - Matt
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