CPQ folks,
We have a CPQ we built that will spin up a purchased part on the fly. When it currently drops to Kinetic there is no supplier on this purchased direct, part on the fly.
Anyone have experience adding a Supplier to a Purchased Part on the Fly from CPQ?
Why in tarnation would anyone want a Purchased Part on the Fly from a CPQ?
Great question, there are reasons. If you really need to know, let me know.
Can you add it to the serialized string that CPQ pushes to Epicor? Not sure if that field exists on OrderDtl or QuoteDtl, though… You could add a UD field to store that. Another option would be to have a BPM set the supplier in Epicor. It might have to span several BO’s, though… From Quote to Order to MRP / GenSugg to PO… Just spit balling.
There is aways one out there, LOL.
We are (ab)using CPQ for just about everything. We have built a fancy CPQ for letters that will be put on a wall. Based on the base material of the letter we sometimes build in-house and sometimes buy it outside. Our sales team is comprised more of sales people and not Estimators that could do quote line engineering, so we want to formulate as much as we can. Let them fill out a “pretty” form and let CPQ figure out the details.
I did find CPQ materials have RFQNeeded property and a VendorNum property, we will test to see if we can pass this from CPQ into Kinetic.