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Distribution Order Type by Part No

  • 11 April 2022
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  • ronhu
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Community,

 

in IFS, distribution order type now is set at customer level, wondering whether we could have it set at the customer and part level.

  1. we have center warehouse in site MIS03, production site MIS02, we are using distribution order to move all production materials from MIS03 to MIS02.
  2. most of the raw materials for shop orders we are using distribution order with non-stop order type, then after all distribution orders are closed, we are creating shop order picking list (by work center) at the warehouse, and use the shop order picking list to pick all the materials, and pack into totes and label them with the destination work center.
  3. but some bolts and nuts are not doing in this way in step 2, they are using order points at MIS02. for those kinds of parts, they should not be using the same order type as the other production materials, they should be created the picking list on the distribution order rather than on the shop orders.

question here, is it possible to have distribution order type split by customer (MIS02). thank you for your input here.

Thank you.

Ron

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Buddhika Kurera
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@ronhu Found this question when querying for another issue related to DO.

It appears that controlling the Order Type at the individual Part level, particularly for Sales Parts, is not feasible. Order Type is set up in the Customer Order Header level and there can be many parts in a single CO. Hence, a more practical approach is to determine the Order Type based on the customer, leading to adding default Order Type at the Customer level.

However when it comes to Distribution Order, since the Part is in the DO Header level, it seems to be a quite valid requirement.

I checked the Distribution_Order_API for creating the CO, it seems like only the Customer No is passed (no Order Type) and to create the CO, Customer_Order_API.New method is used.

Interested in knowing how this was solved, was it using configuration (custom field with an event) approach? If so how the event was set up to consider DO flow only?

Hope it would be helpful to future visitors 😊

--Buddhika Kurera (buku) -- linkedin.com/in/bckurera/
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@Buddhika Kurera No, we dropped this request. Thank you.

Ron

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