I was re-reading this post and realized I hijacked Holly's original post which had nothing to do with my rant! Sorry Holly--
1 &2) I noticed when I entered an RMA (finally got it to work) with the original part and then entered the disposition "Repair", a S/R order was created that converted to a work order with the routing of the generic part that I put in the defaults and not the original part. We use pretty extensive routings and this is a very good thing. I don't think routings are mandatory though and I wonder if there is not a way to receive the generic part in RMA- seems like you should be able to since you could be accepting items you did not make and have no part number for service or repair. I know we do this occasionally. We also have patterning tubes coming in that we keep track of by assigning an RMA number.
3) The location is set up in IS Tech Defaults SD-Q, Sales I tab, and this is important (even might be mandatory) because you do not want items coming back for repair to show up in your other inventory as a part available for sale or use. We only have one "blank location" so this is the scary part for me--
4 & 5) I haven't enough experience with these modules to answer these. Hopefully there is someone who has.
6) I hope this is possible since we post warranty work to a different GL account, but don't know for sure.
I am very much a newbie at this but have been thinking about implementing it for some time- We have in place a access database for RMA and do all of our repair and warranty work using generic parts- I am excited about finally being able to clean up this process.