Release Customer Order
Explanation
This activity is used to release a customer order. Release a planned customer
order by using Release command. The status on the customer order header is updated
from Planned to Released. Once activated, the customer order is ready to continue
in the order flow prescribed for the order type.
To release several customer orders at the same time, use
Quick Order Flow Handling.
Prerequisites
- The customer order header must have been entered and saved.
- The customer order must be in Planned status.
- If the Production Schedule supply code is selected, the inventory sales
part must have been associated with at least one production line, at a site
with a positive scheduling percentage for which a horizon ID is specified
on the Production Line/Schedule Attributes
tab in IFS/Manufacturing Standards.
- If you want to have pegged orders created automatically based on a capability
check upon release, you need to do this capability check before the order
is released.
- If the order has been associated with a project on the
Customer Order/Order
Details tab, all the order lines need to be connected to the
same project.
- If the part is configurable, a configuration must have been defined.
System Effects
- When released, the order status is updated from Planned to
Released.
This means that the customer order is available for other operations and
can continue in the order flow prescribed for the order type.
- Effects of releasing a customer order on a customer's credit limit:
According to the release, a credit check is executed for the order. First,
the system checks whether the customer is credit-blocked in the customer
record. Then, the value of all order lines that have the status Released
to Delivered, but have not yet been invoiced (except cancelled orders),
are totaled so that they do not exceed the customer's credit limit. When
the status is Partially Delivered, the amount that is taken into
consideration is for those lines that are still not invoiced. Any credit
invoices are taken into consideration, too. If IFS Financials is installed,
all outstanding invoices are included as well. When the credit limit has
been exceeded or the total overdue amount (which has also exceeded the allowed
overdue days) exceeds the allowed overdue amount, the order acquires the
status Blocked and is stopped in the order flow. The order can, however,
be released manually in Handle Blocked Customer
Orders.
- Effects of releasing a customer order on supply codes:
- DOP Order: The behavior is controlled by the value in the
DOP Connection field:
- Automatic DOP: A DOP header is created
automatically.
- Manual DOP: A DOP header is not created
automatically. A DOP header can be manually pegged to the customer
order line.
- Release DOP: A DOP header is created
automatically. In addition, the DOP structure is created and
released.
- Shop Order: A pegged shop order is
created automatically. The order type of the shop order is set according
to below logic:
- If the part type is Manufactured or
Manufactured Recipe, the order type is set to
Manufacturing.
- If the part type is Remanufactured, the order
type is set to Remanufacturing.
- For other part types when the part has a manufacturing
structure, the order type is set to Manufacturing.
- For other part types when the part does not have a manufacturing
structure, but a remanufacturing structure, the order type is set to
Remanufacturing.
- Production Schedule: Production schedules are generated to
meet the demand quantity. If the part is associated with more than one
production line, the line percentage and the default scheduling method
is used to apportion the customer order quantity to the lines. No
automatic reservations are created upon receipt of production. The order
must be reserved using the normal inventory order processes. Priority
reservations are not created regardless of inventory levels or
availability. If manual reservations exist for the order line, only the
difference in required delivery quantities is released to the production
schedule. A pegging relationship is not maintained between the customer
order and production schedule loaded on the lines, which means that in
the event of order changes or cancellations the resulting implications
would need to be handled manually by you.
- Internal Purchase Transit: A purchase
order for an internal supplier is created automatically. The goods will be delivered via the order-taking
site. The delivery information and delivery address on the pegged
purchase order line will be according to defaults defined in the
relation between the demand site and the supply site. The pegged
purchase order header will always have delivery information and
delivery address according to defaults defined in the relation
between the demand site and the supply site, even if all lines are
direct deliveries. The wanted receipt date on the purchase order is
calculated to the wanted delivery date on the customer order minus
the time needed for picking and delivery of the customer order. If
the wanted receipt date is not a working day in the distribution
calendar the system sets the receipt date on the corresponding
purchase order to the last working day before the date that was
calculated. No receipt date check is made on the purchase order
toward any calendar when you use an order flow with direct delivery
to the customer.
- Internal Purchase Direct: A purchase
order for an internal supplier is created automatically. The goods will be delivered directly to
the customer. The delivery information and delivery address of the order
line will be used on the pegged purchase order line that is created,
either directly or when created from the purchase requisition.
- Purchase Order Transit: A purchase
requisition for an external supplier is created automatically. The goods will be delivered via the
order-taking site. The delivery information and delivery address on the
pegged purchase order line will be according to defaults defined in
the relation between the demand site and the supply site. The pegged
purchase order header will always have delivery information and
delivery address according to defaults defined in the relation
between the demand site and the supply site, even if all lines are
direct deliveries. The wanted receipt date on the purchase order is
calculated to the wanted delivery date on the customer order minus
the time needed for picking and delivery of the customer order. If
the wanted receipt date is not a working day in the distribution
calendar the system sets the receipt date on the corresponding
purchase order to the last working day before the date that was
calculated. No receipt date check is made on the purchase order
toward any calendar when you use an order flow with direct delivery
to the customer.
- Purchase Order Direct: A purchase
requisition for an external supplier is automatically created. The goods will be delivered directly
to the customer. The delivery information and delivery address of the
order line will be used on the pegged purchase order line that is
created, either directly or when created from the purchase
requisition.
- Effects of releasing a customer order on manually sourced order lines:
When a customer order line is sourced manually, the line can be split and
sourced from one or several different sourcing alternatives (including your
own site). Therefore, when the customer order is released, every sourced
line will create a new corresponding customer order line. For example, a
customer line that was sourced against three different suppliers will have
three customer order lines with different suppliers after release. Also
note that any reservations made against the sourced lines (only possible
when sourcing against internal suppliers or your own stock) will be moved
to the corresponding customer order line. Finally these reservations will
be moved from the customer order line to the internal customer order once
it is created.
- Effects of releasing a customer order on Next Level Demand Planning:
If you perform Next Level Demand planning, a single level material plan
will be created. The part planned will be sourced using make/buy splits
and supplier part information to determine the order proposals. If the net
requirement is for a part that is sourced from a multi-site planned internal
supplier, then a distribution order will be created. If the part is sourced
from a make/buy split with supplier splits, this process would result in
the creation of a combination of outputs in the form of shop requisitions,
distribution orders, and purchase requisitions. Otherwise, the Inventory
Part type and the Inventory Part Supply type will determine the type of
requisition or order to create.
- Effects of releasing a capability-checked customer order:
If you
have done a capability check, you cannot release the order if the latest
release date is in the past. The order will remain in status Planned.
Instead you should do a new capability check. When the order is released,
the system will act differently depending on if interim orders exist or
not; i.e., if interim orders were saved during the capability check or not.
Interim orders will never be saved if you have chosen reservation and allocation
option Neither Reserve nor Allocate for your capability check. Interim orders
will always be saved when you have chosen reservation and allocation option
Allocate Only or Reserve and Allocate. For further details, please refer
to About Capability Check.
- Effects of releasing a customer order on sales promotions:
A new
calculation of sales promotions is triggered.