I am at the early stages of implementing the 860 transaction set through Demand Management (Epicor 10.1). I know that the 860 PO Change uses the same APP file format at the 850 Purchase Order, but I’m figuring there has to be something to let Epicor know it’s processing a PO Change, not an original PO. The only field that LOOKS like it may be applicable is the H26 field (PO_Type). For new orders, this is getting mapped as “NE” (for New). But, Epicor’s technical manuals don’t have any details as to the values of this field.
In addition, I don’t see anything at the LINE level for a status. How does it know whether a line is changed or cancelled. Is it as simple as sending a new quantity if it’s a change (or new schedule date), and sending 0 through as the quantity if it’s cancelled?
I’ve gone pretty deep into Epicor’s Inbound Mapping documentation, and not finding the detail I need. I’m hoping someone has done this before and can provide a quick explanation to point me in the right direction.
i was told by Epicor that its really hard to implement 860 changes to an 850. So we decide to just send emails to CS when we receive an 860 instead through Demand entry. Would be interesting to see what you come up with!
I am also working on implementing the 860 PO Change into Demand (Kinetic) but we also started with a report first. With all the documentation, there is never little that can be placed. In PO Type we get DS or SA or OS from the customer defining the POs are Stand Alone, Order Special or Drop Ship and they come across with the same data in this segment in the 860 so there is no new qualifiers we can obtain to trigger something at the beginning, detail or subline levels, especially since we are importing them just like the 850s. I am expecting to have to utilize some kind of method directive to trigger a new custom checkbox flagging the PO as a PO Change if imported post processed to a sales order but still working on the whole logistics of it…What had you determined?