Hi Community,
For our customer, we are using Project deliverables (PDL) module to support their activities of design/industrialization and shipment of robotic lines.
Our client sells this as a service via a sales contract in IFS connected to a WBS project.
The PDL and project modules are used to centralize all the costs required to fulfill the customer’s order.
The entire design phase is transcribed into PDL as a multi-level bill of materials (BOM) with all the parts required.
Once procurement/manufacturing has been completed, the items must be shipped to the customer.
As the BOM may contain many items to be shipped, in PDL we faced several problems :
- We add a BPA to create in mass all the planning lines type = shipment to have all the shipment lines/plans.
- We then use a shipment to support the creation of shipment lines.
According to the standard, the lines are created on the most recently created shipment.
Question 1 : do you have an idea of how we can be able to select the Shipment No we want to create the shipment lines on, from PDL ?
To avoid this problem, we use a work around : we are reassigning lines to another shipment after their creation.
However, we face another problem : we are only able to reassign lines one by one.
Question 2 : do you have an idea of how we can be able to reassign shipment lines massively?
In a more general manner, could you help us to clarify the standard functions associated to shipments from PDL ?