Manual Sourcing
Explanation
This activity is used for manual sourcing of the maintenance material requisition line.
To source a part, select the material line where the Supply Code is Invent Order and click
Manual Sourcing from the Reserve/Unreserve command group. This will open the
Manual Sourcing assistant. The assistant displays all options available to source the
selected material line. The options include the suppliers from whom you can purchase the part, all sites in which
the part in the material line is defined as an inventory part, all remote warehouses that belong to sites connected
to the same company as the Demand Site of the material line.
If Manual Sourcing is opened for a line in Request
Task/Material, and when alternate parts are applicable, the list of sourcing options will also
include all sites and remote warehouses in which those alternate parts are defined as inventory parts, and the
suppliers from whom you can purchase those alternate parts.
If Manual Sourcing is opened for a line in Aviation Maintenance Material
Requisition Lines, and when interchangeable parts are applicable, the list of sourcing options will
also include all sites and remote warehouses in which those interchangeable parts are defined as inventory parts,
and the suppliers from whom you can purchase those interchangeable parts.
Once one or many sourcing options have been selected, you should enter the Quantity to Source
from each sourcing option, and press OK. Executing manual sourcing results in new material lines getting created
for each selected sourcing option. For the rest of this activity description, the initial line which is/was
sourced/interchanged will be referred to as the parent line, and any new material line resulting/resulted from
sourcing/interchanging will be referred to as a child line.
Once the Quantity Required of the parent line is splitted into one or multiple child lines, any
changes to the Quantity Required of any child line will automatically adjust the quantity of the
parent line. This is done to make sure that the sum of the total of Quantity Required of parent
and child lines is always as same as the intial material requirement of the parent line.
Prerequisites
- Material line should not be closed.
- Sourcing can only be done for the unreserved quantity of a material line.
- For parent lines, the Supply Code of the material line must be Invent Order while having
Quanity Pegged as 0.
- For child lines, the Supply Code of the material line must be either Invent Order, Shipment
Order, or Distribution Order while having the parent line Supply Code as Invent Order.
- To source an alternate parts instead of the part on the Request Task/Material, at
least one record must exist in Part/Alternate Parts.
- To source an interhangeable parts instead of the part on the Aviation Maintenance Material
Requisition Lines, at least one interchangeable part record must exist for the material line.
- For the parts to be purchased externally, at least one record in Supplier for Purchase
Part should exist for the respective part.
- For the parts to be sourced from other sites, an Inventory Part record should exist
for the respective part and site combination.
- For sourcing parts from sites which belongs to different companies, internal customers and internal suppliers
should be configured for the receiver sites and sender sites.
System Effects
- If the selected sourcing option has Sender Type Remote Warehouse and Site, and the selected
sender belongs to the same company as the Demand Site, a new (child) material line will be
created with Supply Code Shipment Order.
- If the selected sourcing option has Sender Type site and the selected site belongs to a
different company than the Demand Site, a new (child) material line will be created with
Supply Code Distribution Order.
- If the selected sourcing option has Sender Type supplier, a new material line will be
created with Supply Code Purchase Order.
- Quantity Required on child line will be the quanitity entered for the respective sourcing
option in the Sourcing Assistant.
- Parent line Quantity Required will be adjusted by deducting the sum of Quantity
Required of all child lines, and the sum of the Quantity Required of child lines will
be indicated in Quantity Changed.
- The Order No of the child material line will be as same as the parent line and
Changes Line No will inherit the Order Line No of the parent material
line.
- If the full Quantity Required of a parent material line is sourced/interchanged, such parent
material lines will remain with Quantity Required as 0.
- If the full Quantity Required of a child material line is sourced, such child material lines
will be deleted and any supply object connected will be cancelled.