Enter Customer Order Line

Explanation

This activity is used to enter a customer order line. A customer order is built in two levels, consisting of an order header and one or more order lines. The first step in a new entry is to enter the customer order header, and the second step is to enter customer order lines.

The Lines tab is used to specify the parts and quantities that the customer has ordered. For each order line, you can also specify the wanted and planned delivery dates, prices, or discounts.

When a new order line is created, the system checks to determine whether the specified sales part has been superseded by another part. If a replacement part has been defined with a date of replacement earlier or equal to the date the order line is created, the part on the order line is automatically replaced with the replacement part. A message appears, and the sales part number of the originally requested part is stored in the Original Sales Part No field on the order line.

Sales part number can be entered by using GTIN. To enter GTIN 14 for package, you must use the Input Quantity column instead of the Sales Quantity column.

If you enter an order line with a part that is not available, a message appears. If the availability check says that the entire quantity cannot be delivered, you will receive a message. If a prioritized order type is used and the quantity cannot be reserved, a message is displayed. By selecting the order line, you can click the Substitute Sales Part command and choose a substitute part. When enter the quantity for the desired replacement part(s) in the Sales Qty field, you can choose to order the available quantity or some of the original sales parts and some of the substitute parts.

If the customer order is being created for a Jinsui enabled customer, and a Jinsui invoice needs to be created, the total line amount must not exceed the maximum amount for the Jinsui Invoice defined for the company.

The package part feature is designed for whole discrete quantities. A package part, or kit, should be ordered as a whole unit, and consists of components with or without decimal quantities. When invoicing a complete package, ordering in whole units, the price will be displayed for the complete package. On the invoice, the components included in the package will be listed with their respective quantity for informational purposes. The component listing lets the customer know what the package consists of. The same applies to the Delivery Note.

If the Use Price Incl Tax option is enabled, the Price/Curr and Price/Base fields are non-editable and the price is calculated based on the price including tax value and the connected tax codes. The Price Incl Tax/Curr field is editable.
If the Use Price Incl Tax option is disabled, the Price Incl Tax/Curr and Price Incl Tax/Base fields are non-editable and the price including tax is calculated based on the value entered for the price and the connected tax codes.

If the Free of Charge option is enabled the price of the order line will be set to 0.00. The cost of the parts will be retrieved as the default value for the Tax calculation basis for FOC field.

When a customer order line is entered and the price is retrieved from a customer agreement, the Provisional Price setting is also inherited from the customer agreement. If this setting is enabled, the price on the customer order line is temporary and will be updated later. You cannot create invoices for the customer order lines that have the Provisional Price setting enabled. You must also note, you cannot enable both the Price Freeze setting and the Provisional Price setting at the same time. When making changes to the order line, you must note that the Provisional Price setting can be selected only if the line is not invoiced partially or completely.

Changes in the wanted delivery date after the initial order line entry should result in an automatic update of the price effective date when the pricing method is Delivery Date. The Update Price Effective Date Automatically setting is enabled as well. When you update the wanted delivery date on the customer order line or when you update the wanted delivery dates on all lines from a customer order header, a warning message appears where you can confirm whether or not you want to update the price effective date of all order lines. The price effective date on the order line is then updated and according to the price sources on the order line prices, discounts are updated.

When a customer order line is entered for a sales part that is catch unit enabled, the final price is calculated based on the delivery of the order line. Until the order line has been delivered, the price displayed is a preliminary price based on the conversion factor between the price unit of measure and the sales unit of measure, as set up on the sales part. 

A new order line acquires the Released status. The status of the order header does not change; it is still in Planned status. To view or edit delivery information for the order line, select the order line, click Line Details/Address.

In order to use the DOP flow, you must use a DOP part when creating a customer order line. If you want to modify an existing order line with manually pegged supplies connected to it, sometimes you have to remove or modify the pegging first. If you want to reduce the sales quantity, change the planned due date, the supply code, the condition code, the ownership, or the owner, you have to remove or modify the pegging first. Increasing the quantity is possible but you will be notified that the pegged quantity does not fulfill the demand.

When selecting the supply code, it is important to keep in mind whether the parts are to be issued from project inventory or standard inventory. A project in IFS/Project can own its project inventory, ensuring that material acquired to this project cannot be issued to fulfill other demands, either from another project or from non-project related demands. Inventory parts that are not owned by a project, belong to standard inventory. If the customer order line is project-connected, it will be possible for you to get the parts from project inventory or standard inventory, i.e., you can choose the Project Inventory or Inventory Order supply code respectively (provided the parts are available in inventory). If the line is not project connected, you can only get the parts from standard inventory. If you are dealing with non-inventory parts, you can choose the Project or the Non-Inventory supply code to indicate whether it is a non-inventory part belonging to a project.

Note that if you want to connect the customer order line to a project activity, you should not choose the Pkg supply code as the package parts are not supported within project inventory.

When selecting the Production Schedule supply code, it is important to keep in mind that the sales part must be defined as an inventory part which can be purchased or manufactured. The part must exist as a production line part on at least one production line, on a site with a positive schedule percentage. DOP parts and configured parts cannot use this supply code and it is not possible to run a Capability Check with this supply code. Manual sourcing cannot be performed on such parts.

When values in a customer order line have been changed and the changes need to be replicated to the DOP header, the Replicate Changes dialog will be opened. However, the Send Change Request setting will have no effect and even if it is enabled, it will not apply to DOP. 

When the date in a customer order line is changed, the following scenarios need to be considered:

  1. If you click Yes in the Replicate Changes dialog, then the date change in the CO line will be replicated to its DOP header. An alarm will be generated for the date mismatch between the DOP header and its corresponding DOP order.
    Note: If the status of the DOP header is either Canceled  or Closed, then a message will appear.
  2. If you click No, then only the date in the CO line will be changed.
  1. If you click Yes in the Replicate Changes dialog, a message will appear informing you that more than one DOP header is connected to the CO line and that the date change in the CO line cannot be replicated. If you click OK, it will change the date only on the CO line (except for the DOP headers with the Canceled or Closed status).
  2. If you click No, it will change the date on the CO line, and an alarm will be generated.

Same as the above. 

Note: Different delivery dates for the pegged CO lines can exist. An alarm should be generated only if there is a mismatch between the due date of the DOP header and the planned ship date of the CO line that has to be shipped first.

When the sales quantity in a customer order line is changed, the following scenarios need to be considered:

  1. If you click Yes in the Replicate Changes dialog, the quantity changed on the CO line will be replicated to the DOP header. An alarm will be generated for the quantity mismatch in the DOP header from its corresponding DOP order.
  2. If you click No, then an alarm will be generated for the quantity mismatch between the DOP header and its pegged CO line.
  1. If you select Yes in the Replicate Changes dialog, then the Modify DOP Header Quantity dialog will open. You have the option of distributing the quantity changed, among the DOP headers that are presented in the dialog.
    For example, if the original sales quantity on the CO line is 6, which is connected to three different DOP headers (e.g., 10001, 20002, and 30001), and you change the quantity to 9, you can distribute the quantity change among the DOP header IDs mentioned above, by specifying the new quantity demand in the New Qty Demand field.
  2. Click OK. Alarms will be generated for the quantity mismatch between DOP headers and their corresponding DOP orders. However, if you decide not to distribute all of the remaining quantity, then an alarm will be generated for one of the DOP headers.
  3. If the sales quantity on the CO line has been decreased, e.g., if the sales quantity on the CO line has been decreased from 6 to 3, and if you decide to decrease the quantity in each DOP header by 1, there will be a quantity mismatch of 1. An alarm will be created for the excess quantity, and the DOP header 30001 will get the alarm.
    Note: When more than one DOP header is connected to a CO line, their status will be considered in ascending order, as the first criteria for alarm generation. Then the due date in descending order and the DOP header ID in descending order will be considered as the second and third criteria respectively.
    However, if the quantity changed results in a negative value, then a message will appear.
  4. If you click No, an alarm will be generated on the DOP header with the lowest status.
  1. If you click Yes in the Replicate Changes dialog, a message will appear informing you that there is more than one CO line connected to the DOP header. When you click OK, it will only change the quantity on the CO line. An alarm will be generated due to the quantity mismatch.
  2. If you click No, only the quantity on the CO line only will be changed, and an alarm will be generated.

  When the sales quantity in a customer order line is changed, but not replicated in the DOP header, the following scenarios need to be considered:

  1. Click No in the Replicate Changes dialog.
    However, even if you decide not to replicate the changes, the Pegged Qty field needs to be updated sometimes. For instance, if the new sales quantity is less than the current value in the Pegged Qty field, then the pegged quantity should be updated.
    Note: If the new sales quantity is higher than the current pegged quantity, it will result in an alarm. The source of the alarm will be the customer order demand.
    If the new sales quantity is less than the pegged quantity, then the source of the resulting alarm will be the customer order supply.
  1. Click No in the Replicate Changes dialog.
    Note: To create an alarm, the CO line in the ascending order, the due date in the descending order, and finally the DOP header ID in the descending order will be considered as the first, second, and third criteria respectively.

However, DOP headers with the Closed or Canceled status, and DOP orders with the Removed or Closed status will not be considered.

 

The following delimitations exist if an order requires delivery confirmation:

The following delimitations exist if the Apply Cost of Goods Sold value is set to At Delivery Confirmation:

Prerequisites

For the superseded parts function:

For warranties:

For the substitute sales parts function:

For the default packing instruction function:

System Effects