You might need to exchange the parts that were rented in, with your suppliers due to various reasons. As an example, if the rented in parts are malfunctioning or have to undergo scheduled maintenance, then you might need to exchange these parts with some new parts with your supplier.
Use this activity to create a replacement purchase order to receive the replacement
parts from the supplier. You need to handle the replacement purchase order to
receive the replacement parts into the inventory. You also have the facility
to send the replacement purchase order via connectivity messages. You also need
to handle the supplier return manually to send out the faulty parts back to
the supplier.
After the creation of an Replacement order a new purchase
order in the Planned status is now available in
Purchase Order
page. Treat this order as a normal purchase order.
The Receipt
Date field value will be set as the default for Planned Rental Start
Date field of the replacement order line and the Planned Rental End Date
field value will be copied to the replacement order line. If the planned rental
end date is less than the planned rental start date, then the planned
rental end date will be set as equal to the planned rental start date.
Managing the rental and the financial control of the replacement order line will be handled by the original rental number which corresponds to the original purchase order line.
Note: If you want to send the replacement purchase order to another site, you can send it via connectivity messages.
The original purchase order might have been received into inventory.
Based upon the quantity of parts to be returned, a replacement purchase order is created.