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Supplier Shipments for Purchase Components POs and Rejects

  • Oct 16, 2026 3:48 PM UTC
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In 26R1 has anyone successfully set up having one Shipment Type to handle the workflow for a Supplier Reject/Return and a different one to handle Supplier Material?  We manage Supp Matl using Purchase Component rather than Customer Order so are required to use Supplier Shipments in 26R1.  

 

We’ve been using Shipment in our reject process for a while.  I say “use” - our reject process doesn’t need the multiple steps in a Shipment workflow so is currently set to get created and then skip directly to Closed.  Our Supplier Material process does need a pick to be generated, have someone report it, and create a ‘delivery note’ to accompany the parts.

I have tried various combinations of Shipment defaults on Site/Supplier with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

Linda

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PRODQ
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  • Oct 21, 2026 12:50 PM UTC

It seems we are going to have to investigate using a workflow to cover this requirement.  I’ll now be raising this as an “Idea” to have Shipment Type Defaults per Site/Supplier/Transaction Type

 

 

Linda
Nikila Dis
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  • Nov 10, 2026 11:38 AM UTC

It seems we are going to have to investigate using a workflow to cover this requirement.  I’ll now be raising this as an “Idea” to have Shipment Type Defaults per Site/Supplier/Transaction Type

Hi ​@PRODQ ,

The shipment type can be specified in the Supplier Outbound Address Information based on the applicable delivery address.

The shipment type is determined according to the following priority:

  1. The shipment type defined in the Supplier Outbound Address Information.
  2. If no shipment type is defined there, the system uses the Outbound Shipment Type configured for the site.

Currently, there is no configuration option to specify separate shipment types for supplier returns and supplier material shipments. Therefore, there is no standard workaround available to achieve this requirement.

As this functionality is not currently supported through standard configuration, I have raised above enhancement requirement in the IFS Community for consideration as a product enhancement.

Regards,

Nikila Dissanayake

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PRODQ
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  • Nov 10, 2026 12:22 PM UTC

It seems we are going to have to investigate using a workflow to cover this requirement.  I’ll now be raising this as an “Idea” to have Shipment Type Defaults per Site/Supplier/Transaction Type

Hi ​@PRODQ ,

The shipment type can be specified in the Supplier Outbound Address Information based on the applicable delivery address.

The shipment type is determined according to the following priority:

  1. The shipment type defined in the Supplier Outbound Address Information.
  2. If no shipment type is defined there, the system uses the Outbound Shipment Type configured for the site.

Currently, there is no configuration option to specify separate shipment types for supplier returns and supplier material shipments. Therefore, there is no standard workaround available to achieve this requirement.

As this functionality is not currently supported through standard configuration, I have raised above enhancement requirement in the IFS Community for consideration as a product enhancement.

Regards,

Nikila Dissanayake

Thanks, Nikila, but as you say this doesn’t resolve the issue as in both instances - shipping supplier material and returning rejected parts - the goods are going to the same address ie the supplier.

I have upvoted your idea.

 

Linda

 

Linda
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