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Message started by dwight on 02/13/04 at 13:33:18

Title: Outside Vendors
Post by dwight on 02/13/04 at 13:33:18

Some of our routers specify "Outside Services". A PO for the outside service is written and referenced to the Work Order number. When the items are received from the vendor, the quantity doubles. This requires going to DC "Enter Production Only" and backing out the incorrect quantity. This is not an occasional problem. It happens on every outside operation.

What are we doing wrong?

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by normsnc on 02/13/04 at 14:02:58

When you go to PO-A Enter Purchase Order and after selecting your vendor, does a window pop up to choose whether this is a P-Purchase type PO or a S-Service type PO? Choosing a P instead of an S might be your only problem here.

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by dwight on 02/13/04 at 14:34:51

Thanks for your reply. We do use as "S" type order for outside service. Apparently this is not the problem.

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by Karen Mason on 02/13/04 at 15:02:02

Do you use the conversion factor? If so, is it being figured properly? For instance heat treat is by the pound, so if we have 500 pieces at 1000#, the conversion factor = .50 (pcs/wt). On the receiving end, make sure the weight is being received.

Other than that, ours seems to work okay

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by dwight on 02/13/04 at 15:13:35

All our Outside Service PO's are entered as dollars per piece. Maybe our problem has to do with the way the router is set up. Eg.

Operation 30 - Mill
Operation 50 - Outside Service
Operation 60 - Receive from Vendor
Operation 90 - Receive from Work Order

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by Lynn Pantic on 02/16/04 at 10:43:44

If you have 2 operations set up, one to send the parts out and one to receive them back in, then that could be a problem. There should be one operation for the plating or painting or whatever the vendor is doing, devined on the Routing as a type P meaning Outside processing. Cutting the PO sends them out and receiving the PO brings them back.

Title: Re: Outside Vendors
Post by dwight on 02/19/04 at 12:55:08

Lynn,

Thanks. Our problem was that the outside order was issued once, when the PO was cut. (We didn't know that actually Issued the material.) The items were Issued again when the warehouseman "clocked in" the pieces on the operation number on the router.