May be a stupid question, but I couldn’t find a definitive answer.
We have a Job for Qty 2,000 and a Subcontract Op for these parts to go out for a treatment process.
Due to price, capacity, or even just to keep two different vendors in the old rolodex happy… we want/need to split this between two different vendors.
So, we now have
(1) Subcontract Operation
(2) Different Vendors resulting in (2) PO’s and (2) Subcontract Shipments
I would’ve thought this was possible.
We were able to proceed through the PO portion, however, we were unable to add the 2nd PO Line to the 2nd Subcontract Shipment pack.
It squawked (errored) that the VendorID on the PO did not match the VendorID on the shipment. Which technically wasn’t true. The 2nd PO’s vendorID was the VendorID we were using on the 2nd Subcontract Shipment pack. But the error even included the VendorID from the 1st PO/SubCon Pack… so apparently once you ship a subcontract pack, that gets linked to the op, and you can have only (1).
Is that the case? Or is this a bug and we SHOULD be able to split an Op across multiple PO’s/Vendors?
I was able to work around it by adding a 2nd Subcontract Op to the job which I could then tie to the 2nd PO and the 2nd Shipment… so it got us back to a 1-to-1 relationship.
Just wasn’t sure if I was battling a Bug… or if having the 1-to-1 relationship “is the way” and I need to train our production staff to add operations if/when this comes up again.
There are no stupid questions and after reading half way down the post, I was thinking you were going to need two ops which is what you did.
My thought is that this scenario was not considered in the original development. It is probably working as designed. But it should so I am voting for “undocumented feature”
Yeah I found quite a few posts about shipping to multiple vendors back-to-back on subcontract ops, trying to drop-ship from one to the next, etc. But I couldn’t find any information about splitting one op to multiple vendors.
I was thinking about putting in an “Idea” to gain that functionality if it isn’t currently built for it… but… I wasn’t even sure if it was supposed to work that way or not and I was just seeing a glitch.
As of 10.2.700.40 there is no issue with this. I’m not sure if this might have changed in a more recent release, though.
One subcontract Op for a total of 100,000 EA. I was able to create two POs to two different vendors and created two subcontract shipments to the two vendors - one to each for 50,000 EA.
Epicor even automatically picked the correct PO # for each when I entered the job information in subcontract shipment entry.
Able to duplicate in current code 12.0.100 and 11.3.200
Unable to duplicate in last release 11.3.100.23 [so, apparently this is a new bug]
Problem Description:
Subcontractor Shipment Entry - System retrieve the first PO created to validate the Supplier selected in the Subcontractor Shipment Head.
Expected Behavior:
System should not retrieve the first PO created to validate the Supplier ID once the operation sequence selected in Subcontract Shipment line. Should allow user to select the PO needed when multi supplier created for a Subcontract PO.
