Added to NDS Applications, version 7.5.2
New features added, version 7.5.3, 8.1
The Internal Supplier feature is used to automate sales order entry for vendor/customer relationships between two business entities in the same database. The feature can be used whenever a formal purchase order/sales order relationship is desired between entities.
* The entities might be two different plants in the same manufacturing enterprise and financial enterprise, or they might belong to completely different enterprises.
A vendor record is created in program VEMM, Vendor Master Maintenance, to represent the supplying entity, referencing the customer that represents the customer entity on the vendor's side.
Any purchase order lines created for the vendor will generate status O - Complete sales orders and lines for the associated customer using the sales location designated by the internal enterprise.
The pricing on the sales order line for internally supply purchase orders is determined by the INT_SUPPLY_PRICE_OVRD parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance. The following settings can be used:
* N - the unit price on the sales order will be 0.
* C - the unit price on the sales order will match the unit price on the purchase orders.
* Any other setting indicates that standard pricing will be used on the sales order.
Voiding a purchase order line will cause the deletion of the corresponding sales order line as long as it is in ‘O' status.
Updating the purchase order line due date, quantity, or purchase unit of measure will update the sales order accordingly. One sales order is created per purchase order, with the purchase order number referenced as the customer purchase order on the sales order. The sales orders are created with O - Complete status because there is no incomplete status for purchase orders.
When a sales order is backordered, the purchase order is updated with the new sales order number. As long as the backorder is O - Complete status, updates to the purchase order will update the backorder.
* The POEM_INTERCO_WARN parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, can be set up so that a warning is displayed when the sales order is not open. When the parameter is set to Y, a warning will be displayed in program POEM, PO Entry/Maintenance, when a user queries an internal purchase order, only one sales order is associated with the purchase order, the sales order is not open, and there are no open back orders for the sales order.
The purchase order can no longer be maintained when the sales order is confirmed, cancelled, or otherwise has a status other than O - Complete ( unshipping an order may do this). The maintenance relationship is broken if the supplier creates a purchase order tied to the sales order.
When a purchase order is created for a model, either through program OEOE, Sales Order Entry/Maintenance, or program POSE, Create Purchase Orders from Sales, the model configuration is copied from the source sales order. The model is not maintained thereafter, so the user should make sure that the configuration is complete and valid at the time the purchase order is created. If the MURM parameter AUTO_CREATE_MODULAR_WO is set affirmatively, then a work order in the vendor's plant is also created, tied to the vendor's sales order.
Purchase orders for internal suppliers can be received in program REOM, One Step Receiver Entry/Maintenance. When the sales order is status S - Confirmed Complete, the sales order number can be entered in the Internal Sls Order field. Press the [Receive PO] button to receive the quantities that were shipped. The receiver will be closed automatically.
* If the REOM_INT_SO_REQD parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, is set to Y, receipt of internal supply purchase orders requires receipt of entire sales order shipment.
Shipment of internal sales orders can be recorded in program OEICS, InterCompany Quick Ship.
Sales analysis and item history are recorded for internal supply transactions, but they can be suppressed. The INTERNAL_SUPPLY_NOHIST parameter in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, controls whether or not the sales analysis and item history is recorded for the internal supply sales orders and purchase orders. When set to Y, the information is recorded. When set to N, the information is not recorded.
* Items with the Drop Ship Only flag set to on in program ICMM, Inventory Master Maintenance, will not have sales order lines created.
* Differences in the unit cost on the purchase order side and the unit price on the sales order side for stocked items are not addressed. Non stocked items have the list and unit price set to the alternate purchase order unit cost.
* Sales units of measure must exist for all purchase units of measure being used, with matching conversion factors.
* Internal supply purchase orders received with program REOM, One Step Receiver Entry/Maintenance, are subject to the following restrictions:
* The purchase order cannot contain controlled items.
* The purchase order cannot have distribution detail.
* The resulting receiver detail lines and quantities will match the sales order shipment.
* The receiver cannot be maintained manually.
Enter a vendor record for the internal supplier.
Enter a customer record to represent the entity being supplied within the vendor's sales order entry system. In the Attributes Tab, enter the vendor number for the previously created internal supplier.
Only one customer record can reference a vendor number that has the Internal Vendor flag set to on.
Query the vendor record for the internal supplier and set the Internal Vendor flag to on. In the Int Enterprise field, enter the financial enterprise for the customer entity, to indicate the customer enterprise record to use when selecting a sales location for the sales order.