Automatic Purchase Orders from Manufacturing Orders

Under this section you will find settings for automatic generation of purchase orders from manufacturing orders.

Creating purchase orders from manufacturing orders

Here you can select if it should be possible to automatically create purchase orders from the Register Manufacturing Order procedure. This would then take place when the manufacturing order is saved. A purchase order can only be created for purchase parts that are incorporated in the current manufacturing orders and that have the lot sizing rule Lot-for-lot (L) and a supplier link. The available alternatives are:

• Do not create P-order. If you select this option, no purchase orders or suggestions will be created.
• Create P-order. If you select this alternative a check box called Purchase order will be available in the Register Manufacturing Order procedure. If you have checked this check box the system will, when you save the manufacturing order, automatically open the Purchase Order Suggestion procedure (from manufacturing order) with filled in order rows with quantity, period, supplier etc. corresponding to the need in the manufacturing orders.

Create purchase order by default in Register Manufacturing Order

If you have selected to be able to create purchase order from manufacturing order, this setting will determine if the alternative to automatically create purchase order should be checked by default in the Register Manufacturing Order procedure.

Goods label row 2 on purchase orders entered as

If you have selected to create a purchase order from the manufacturing order, you can also choose how the goods label should be configured for the purchase orders. The available alternatives are:

• Empty If you select this alternative then the goods label field on the purchase order will be left empty.
• Manufacturing order number. If you select this alternative the purchase order will automatically be labeled with the manufacturing order number (and work center) on the second row in the goods label field.

This setting also affects the linked requirement and supply planning.

Enter manufacturing order number on purchase order row?

If you have checked this setting the purchase order row will be labeled with the manufacturing order number in the Extra row info field. This also applies if the purchase order suggestion was generated from the Requirement Calculation or the Netting. This setting is selected by default.

This setting also affects the linked requirement and supply planning.