Hi all, 

I am reaching out today, as a unique issue has come up regarding the supply chain department, and I am not sure if there is any current way in IFS to address the issue presented. We are currently running IFS Apps 10 UPD 22. 

We are an MRP shop, so all demand is run through MRP and we process Shop Orders and Purchase Orders in the system. 

Our supply chain team was recently notified that one of our customers is moving to a “market place” system that all ordering should be done from. In the past with this vendor we would simply use MRP and create/convert PORs to POs. 

The new system essentially rips all of that out of our hands and is to be done on their platform. We would basically receive the product in and pay the invoice, but have no Purchase Order.

The vendor has stated that we do have the ability to download the info from they system to an XLS/CSV, but I do not see how that solves the issue for us. If we manually create POs in our system, there is no connection to what was ordered on their platform. We would also be receiving an invoice from their system to pay, and then have an internal PO invoice if we created them in our system. 

I don’t believe VMI would address this and was reaching out to see if anyone had run into a similar issue and how they resolved it. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.