Minimum Inventory Setup for Internal Requisitions
Define Internally Orderable Items
When you define internally orderable items, there are a few attributes that require extra consideration. See: Defining Items.
- Inventory and Order Entry regions
Items you use on internal requisitions must be Inventory enabled, internally orderable and stockable, shippable, and Order Entry transactable for the source organizations. Under Inventory, you need to set the Inventory Item, Transactable, and Stockable attributes to Yes. Under Order Entry, you need to set the Internal Ordered, Internal Orders Enabled, and OE Transactable, and Shippable attributes to Yes.
- Source Type - General Planning region
You can specify a default source type of Inventory or Supplier.
You cannot create intraorganization internal requisitions for MRP planned items. When you specify sourcing information for MRP planned items, you need to ensure that you do not define an intraorganization sourcing rule for these items.
- List Price - Purchasing region
Inventory sourced requisitions use item costs for pricing. You may still want to specify a list price for items that are sourced both from suppliers or inventory.
- Unit of Issue - Purchasing region
You use units of issue to round order quantities, minimizing shipping, warehousing, and handling costs.
Enter the unit of measure you typically use to issue the item from inventory. Purchasing uses this unit of measure as the default for internal requisition lines sourced from inventory when you create them in the Requisitions window.
- Rounding Factor - Purchasing region
Enter a number between 0 and 1. This factor determines how to round the quantity on an internal requisition that results from conversions between the requisition line unit of measure and the item's Unit of Issue. This factor insures that the unit of issue resolves to an integer, rather than a fractional amount.
Purchasing either performs rounding automatically or advises you of the suggested quantity, depending how you set up your purchasing options.
Set Up Item Sourcing
Internal requisitions use the sourcing information you specify in Inventory. All items, subinventories, and organizations may have item sourcing information specified for them. At each level, you can choose whether items are replenished from inventory or purchased from a supplier. In case of a conflict between the levels, internal requisitions use the following order of precedence to determine the default source type and source for the item and destination:
- Sourcing information specified in the item-subinventory relationship
- Sourcing information specified in the subinventory definition
- Sourcing information specified in the item definition
- Sourcing information specified in the organization setup options
Specify Inventory as the default source type if you want to source requests from an internal stock location.
- Source Organization and Subinventory
If you specify an item to be replenished from inventory, you must specify a source organization; a source subinventory is optional. When you place an order for this item, Inventory creates an internal requisition for the item from the source location.
Define the Inter-Organization Shipping Network
Use the Inter-Organization Shipping Information form to define your inter-organization network. You must enable the network between each source (shipping) and destination (receiving) organization.
Set Require Internal Orders to Yes if you want all transfers between these two organizations to use internal orders.
Specify whether you ship material directly, or use intransit inventory for shipments between these two organizations.
Attention: If you use Lot, Serial, or Item Revision Control in both the source and destination organization, you must use intransit if you ship from an organization with less control (i.e. Lot Control), to an organization with more control (i.e. Lot and Serial Control).
For intransit transfers, you can choose from the following primary receipt routings: Standard Receipt, Inspection Required, or Direct Delivery.
Specify whether the destination organization takes ownership of transferred items when they are issued to intransit (Shipping), or when they are received out of intransit (Receiving).
- Inter-Organization Transfer Charge
Specify how you want to apply transfer costs to the destination organization. Choose either a predefined or requested percentage of the transaction value or a fixed amount that represents an added value.
Set Up a Customer Association
To define your organization as the destination for an internal requisition, Order Entry / Shipping has to recognize you as a customer. See: Associating Ship-to and Receiving Locations. See also: Site Locations. See also: Assigning a Business Purpose to a Customer Address.
