We do a lot of purchase-direct. All parts are HOUSE buyer. We find it difficult to avoid stepping on each others toes in buyer workbench.
Has anyone come up with creative ways to optionally override default buyer on PO suggestions?
In PO suggestions you can just . . . change the buyer to whatever you want, no creativity needed.
If you are wanting it to happen automatically then the first step would be to define the logical rules for when you want the buyer to be different. Its easy to update the suggestion with a function.
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Thanks. Yeah I am thinking project manager or salesperson to buyer relationship. Asking if folks have cracked that nut. Pros n Cons. Also believe I’ve read some challenges on intercepting Generate PO Suggs process. Perhaps I’m wrong just reaching out for hints as we start to plan.
For example, if I want to generate Suggs for buyer1 while all parts are buyer house, I assume I need to intercept the process early. Is it even possible?
There is no need to intercept anything. Generate suggestions or mrp runs on a schedule, just run a function to apply whatever logic you want afterwards.
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Yeah we run it nightly and then folks run manually throughout the day to get RFQ Suggs. Was thinking it’d help to run the generate process filtered. Perhaps unnecessary.
We have an in-tran data directive on SugPODtl to set the BuyerID based on which site the suggestion is for. It checks for added rows and looks up the buyer from a UD Field we added.
This way it triggers no matter how the suggestion is created: MRP, Generate Suggestions, approved requisitions, etc.
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Just my 2 cents on how we manage ours… but each organization is different. In case it helps:
We assign a specific Buyer to certain part classes… so all generated suggestions for certain products always get directed to certain buyers.
Otherwise, any parts that aren’t automatically directed based on their part class are assigned to a generic buyer (sounds like you do the same with your “HOUSE” buyer). Our Purchasing Manager will review those suggestions each morning and assign them in PO Suggestions to whoever he wants to manage them.
Those assigned suggestions show up on the individual buyer’s Buyer Workbench.
So… really, only our Purchasing Manager goes into “PO Suggestions” to divide up and assign the suggestions. All of our Buyers strictly work off of their respective workbenches.
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Thanks @aosemwengie1 @dcamlin @tsmith This really helps give direction.