The requirement is to create purchase orders based on the delivery address, which means, when converting purchase requisition lines (Originated from an internal customer order) to purchase orders, the orders should be created based on the addresses of the order lines. The following toggle “Group By delivery address” should be enabled before the conversion.
Test Plan
- Create the external customer order with four order lines on the Demand site
- Line 1 & 2 have two different delivery addresses of the same customer (Single Occurrence)
- Line 3 & 4 have the same delivery address
Once you release the order, it will create the internal purchase order in the demand site and also the internal customer order in the supply site. The supply site will be purchasing from an external supplier. The two single occurrence lines will be directly delivered using “Purch Order Direct” and the other two lines will be “Purch Order Trans” where the goods are delivered through the supply site. This is the standard IFS flow and nothing different.
Supply Chain Order Analysis
Internal Customer Order
Once the internal customer order is released, it will create purchase requisitions, because the part will be purchase from an external supplier. In this example, it will create four different purchase requisition lines.
- Convert the purchase requisition lines to purchase orders. Make sure the “Group by Delivery Address” toggle is enabled.
- Ideally after the conversion from PR to PO, here it should create only 3 Purchase Orders. Two orders for the single occurrence addresses and a single order for the two requisition lines with the same address. What happens here is, it creates two different POs for the single occurrence addresses which is correct. But it also creates another two POs for the other two lines with the same address, which is wrong in my opinion.
Am I missing something here? Or is this a bug? According to the group by delivery address functionality, whenever there are requisition lines which has the same delivery address, those lines should be consolidated, and a single PO should be created. That’s not what I can see. Instead, it creates a PO for each requisition line even when the delivery address is the same.
Please advise.