A. What is your idea?
1) Classification
Opportunity for improvement
2) Brief description
Current self-service procurement functionality using punchout catalogues only supports No Part Line creation in the shopping cart resulting in PR with no part lines. There are instances (mainly seen in the Mining Industry) where the products selected from the punchout catalogues are in IFS as inventory purchased parts with supplier part numbers defined in the Supplier for Purchase Part records. Once the PR is converted to PO and the goods are receipted, they need to be put away into inventory. In these cases, the PO receipts are not considered as just expense but as inventory value. Supplier Agreements too can exist with these suppliers, and they are also not considered in the current functionality.
Therefore, when the shopping cart from the supplier’s webshop to IFS, if part lines can be added to the IFS shopping cart based on the supplier part numbers, instead of no part lines, this will benefit many customers who currently cannot use IFS punchout functionality due to the current functionality limitation.
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B. Context and scope
1) Who is affected?
- Customers
- Partners
2) Frequency
- Frequently
C. Value and impact
1) What is the business outcome?
- Reduces cost or manual effort
- Enhances user experience
- Enables new capability
- Supports compliance or reduces risk
- Other – This gap identified in IFS does not seem to exist in some of the other ERPs. Hence when it comes to ERP displacement projects, it has been difficult to pitch/implement IFS where punchout self-service procurement is a significant business requirement.
2) Impact scale
- 5 — Enterprise-wide
3) Workaround
If there is a workaround, describe it briefly. Otherwise write “No workaround”.
No practical workaround. All workarounds proposed have been rejected by customers so far. Customizations are required.
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D. Evidence and examples
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Supporting evidence documentations and examples from customers can be provided upon request.
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E. Additional details
1) Enter support ticket ID reference (If applicable)
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2) Would you like to participate in validation or early testing?
Yes
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