I enter orders for large systems. I create (1) part number ‘parent part’, (1) line, and (1) job. Our systems often have dozens of ‘child parts’ that make up the system. The ‘child parts’ are entered into the Job by the Project Manager.
This order was set to ship oversees. I was contacted by sales today because they want a portion of the system to still ship overseas, but another portion to ship to a location within the USA. So, basically I have one Sales Order, but two ship-tos.
One of my Project Managers said they believe this can be managed via the Job. Is this true? Is there a way to ‘split’ the shipment without creating a second Sales Order?
yes, simply create a second RELEASE on the sales order line, and specify a different shipto on that release. also reduce the first release quantity… then in the job demand, create a link to the second release. Now you can finish making all the items on the one job, but you can ship to two different places.
If you’ve never used two releases before in your organization and neither manufacturing nor shipping has ever worked with releases I would tread lightly…
It’s what they are meant to be used for (among other reasons) as Tim said, but people seem to get extremely confused.
This makes sense. I believe I will also need to create a second Job so the child parts go to the correct locations…right? My possible challenge is changing the qty of the line from 1 to 2. Our process has always been a qty of 1. I needed to know if it could be done, which it can. Now I can present it as a solution and solicit higher-level approval before I can proceed. Thank you everyone!
Changing the order to a qty of 2, would imply you’re making two Identical items, with each one shipped to a different location.
It sounds like you need to make a second line on the order just for the child item you want broken out to be sent elsewhere.
This is easily solved, but greatly depends on which department you want to upset (i.e. make do the most work).
Adding a second line requires changing the job for line 1 to not include the child being separated. That brings up questions like, if it is okay to have line 2 be at zero price for the customer, with line 1 having the price for both line 1 and line 2. This will make accounting unhappy as they might run into issues with invoicing 2 lines against a PO that specified one line. And the fact that line 1 will look highly profitable, while line 2 was a complete loss (all the cost of the child, with zero revenue). See how this snowballs?
@Yodelayheewho look at the demand links section of Job entry.
A job can have one or many demand links.
In other words, if you create two releases for your sales order line, you can then create two demand links on your single job, one demand link for each of your releases.
