OK, (a customer in Epicor Ideas) has found a situation where we dont believe the software is behaving exactly as intended. Some would say it is a bug, but others might consider it a feature. If we fix the bug, others out there might complain that it has worked this way for 20 years, why change it now. Here is the feature:
Sales Order, with 2 lines
Line 1: Item1, qty 100, Misc Charge of $15 EACH SHIPMENT
Line 2: Item2, qty 100, Misc Charge of $7 each shipment
When you create the packslip, you find that line 1 has 100 in stock, so you create a packing line for 100 pieces and ship.
But when you go to ship line 2, you find that you have 100, but in three different locations. Since you are not using the fulfillment workbench, you simply create three different lines, pulling the inventory from the three different bins. Bin1a for 60 pieces, Bin 1b for 20 pieces, and Bin 1c for 10 pieces.
Because of the way that shipping works, you have to create three different packing lines on the packslip, which you do, shipping from each bin on a separate line item.
You ship
You Invoice.
What do you exect that the misc charges will be?
I would think that the misc charges would be 15 for line 1, and 7 for line 2 (once per shipment)… BUT what actually happens is that the EACH works on EACH LINE of a packslip, so instead, you get a $15 charge for line 1 (as expected), and then THREE TIMES $7, once per bin shipped from.
I think it’s each ORDER line per pack slip. So it’s the same order line, that gets grouped into a single charge. So that the example pack slip $15+$7 = $22.
Charging that charge for different bin locations is petty in my mind.
What about if those three bin locations were all the same locations, but were for three different lot numbers. If under lot control, it requires the packing slip line to be different.
Based on my understanding of how Epicor currently works, I would expect 4 charges, one for each ship line. But that is just because I have read the help files and tested it.
Maybe there just needs to be more options with better titles. Instead of just “Every”, there is an “Every Pack Line” and “Every Pack”?
We added even more confusion to that - we create a pack for 1 quantity (it was bigger product, so in this case it would be 100 packs) and use master pack to pull in the individual packs. I believe we used last, because we didn’t want shipping charged on each individual pack if we used every.
To me, it should be that the customer is charged the Misc charge for each part number, not each shipment line (whether due to a bin difference or due to a lot number difference). If it’s a bin difference, the parts could be moved with an inventory transfer to one bin (such as the shipping bin) and then put on the pack slip from there, but that is more work for shipping to remember. As for lot numbers, there is no easy way to combine those other than what Jenn said above.
Every on a miscellaneous charge should be every shipment/pack of that part, not every line in within a pack. Just my 2 cents…
