Multi Plant Purchasing

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This is an inherent problem with centralized purchasing and multi plant as each buyer must have a default plant. This is the plant that will auto populate when ever that buyer creates a new PO. What makes it even more interesting is when a buyer is purchasing the same raw material for multiple plants at the same time and on the same PO. That is where the release comes in handy. You can specify a partial qty of the line to be shipped to China and the remainder of the line Qty to be shipped to another plant. This requires the shipping address on the Release tab. To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
From: rick.stannard@...
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:45:53 +0000
Subject: [Vantage] Multi Plant Purchasing


























We are running Vantage 8.03.410. We are setting up a manufacturing facility in China, and want to use multi plant, because we have a centralized purchasing department that will handle purchasing for this facility. When placing a PO for material for the plant in China, the buyer has to go to the PO header page after the PO has been created, and change the ship to address to the China plant from the system default, even though he is signed in to the China plant. We believe this step will be missed, and as a result we'll have material shipped from our vendors to the wrong plant.



Are there any Vantage users that have faced this, and how have you handled it? Is it possible to set up a BPM that will recognize the plant you are signed into, and make that plant the ship to address for all purchase orders created when signed into that plant?


















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We are running Vantage 8.03.410. We are setting up a manufacturing facility in China, and want to use multi plant, because we have a centralized purchasing department that will handle purchasing for this facility. When placing a PO for material for the plant in China, the buyer has to go to the PO header page after the PO has been created, and change the ship to address to the China plant from the system default, even though he is signed in to the China plant. We believe this step will be missed, and as a result we'll have material shipped from our vendors to the wrong plant.

Are there any Vantage users that have faced this, and how have you handled it? Is it possible to set up a BPM that will recognize the plant you are signed into, and make that plant the ship to address for all purchase orders created when signed into that plant?