In some cases you need to borrow an exchange part during the repair of the a part. Use this activity to specify a supplier loan part, which would be required if you want a supplier to provide you with a loaner part before you send the faulty part to the supplier for repair. When the original part is repaired, the supplier returns it to you, at which point you return the supplier loan to the supplier. It is assumed that the loan part is functionally equivalent to the faulty original part and has been established as an alternate part on the Alternate Parts tab of the Part page.
To add a supplier loan part to an external service order, return to the existing purchase order and purchase order line for the part that needs to be repaired, and specify on a new line which loan part you would like to receive.
As a result of this activity, the system creates a new purchase order line for the supplier loan part. The ownership will be set to Supplier Loan and owner to the supplier ID.