The charge/no charge function can be used when you are supplying the supplier with material or components that the supplier needs to either manufacture or pack the parts that you then purchase. This function allows you to either charge, i.e., sell the material or the components to your supplier, or not charge the supplier for the material and components that you supply to the supplier. These components will be connected to the purchase order, and sent to the supplier using a customer order.
When entering the purchase order line, any components entered in a product structure in IFS/Manufacturing Standards is copied to the purchase order line. In case a product structure is not used, you can manually specify the components.
The order number, line number, and release number are automatically retrieved from the purchase order. Normally, the line item number is automatically generated by the system when saving the component line, but you can also manually specify this number.
Depending on the requirements or practices of your industry, you can backflush
the component parts. Backflushing involves transporting the component material
to a special backflushing location in advance, and automatically issuing the
components as and when the purchase parts (top parts) are received from the
supplier. Thus a customer order will not be created when the relevant purchase
order is released, as the components are to be directly issued.
In case
a product structure is not used (or when you have manually entered a component
line), you must enable the Backflush option and specify a backflushing
location in the Purchase
Order Line Components page. Otherwise, these values would be used
by default per product structure, in IFS/Manufacturing Standards. Note that
backflushing is enabled per component line; therefore you could choose to backflush
some components and send the other components through the normal charge or no
charge flow. In order to be able to backflush the components, you must have
selected Item Not Charged in the Charged Item field.
In the Supply Code field, select either Inventory Order or Project Inventory. The Project Inventory supply code is allowed only for purchase order lines that are connected to project activities. In such cases, parts can be reserved and picked only from the project inventory of the connected project.