Supplier Not Approved by Customer?

Kinetic ERP
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We don’t really use Supplier Price Lists consistently. A few years ago one of our purchasers setup prices lists for some suppliers. Ever since then we have had issues with Epicor requiring approved suppliers for some ops/materials.

Today I am running a test in Pilot to learn a bit more how the purchasing system works. I have created a purchase order for some material for a specific job. I set the material on the job to Purchase Direct = True. Then I tried to add a line for the material on the purchase order.

Right now we order all material to inventory, and deal with it when it gets here. When I switch from an Inventory line to a Job Material line, I can now enter job information. When I enter the info for my job, I get this error:

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It says supplier not approved by (insert customer name here).

I can fix this by adding this specific part and customer to the approved supplier list.

My question is, can this check be skipped? Is this a flag in the company/site setup pages? I couldn’t find it. Do we really need all of our suppliers to be on an approved supplier list by part number? This is a lot of data entry, and we don’t see any benefit.

Thank you!
Nate

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If there are one or more approved supplier rows for a part or sub operation, then all suppliers must be approved. It should be called Qualified Suppliers to denote a more restrictive mode.

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You may be able to unroll the requirement via a part revision. Never done it mind you so will be watching this thread.

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That’s the ticket!!! I found old approved suppliers in the customer. I removed all of them, and now it doesn’t request that approved supplier! Awesome! Thank you!
Now I can get that cleaned up and we can try to use it correctly.

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Also, if you check the Approved Supplier box on a price list row, it creates the VendAprv row so don’t ever check that if you don’t want the restrictive mode.

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I may branch this next question off, as it is only tangentially related.

Now that I have a PO with a Job Material Line, we are worried that when it gets received that material goes right into WIP because it is automatically issued to the job. Is there any way around this? Can we receive the materials to inventory and not issue them to the job until they are ready?

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Not certain but I’d probably change the PO Line to Inventory otherwise Receipt will be PUR-MTL not PUR-STK, as you said.

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Thats what we do now. We really want to record the job information at the PO level, but we don’t necessarily want to receive it directly to the job.

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I think that would require a custom field on the PO release level.

MRP pegging will tell you what demands MRP plans to apply the supply to, but that won’t necessarily match what the original intent of the Buyer was.

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same, but no can do. With AMM module there’s Allocations but we don’t have that module.