Understanding Purchase Orders for Production Controlled Items
Each time you want to purchase goods or services, you must enter a purchase order. You enter orders to specify details about the goods or services you are purchasing, to indicate the supplier from whom you are purchasing, and to specify other pertinent information.
The production number tracks the supply of production controlled items on purchase orders. You enter purchase orders for production controlled items using the Purchase Orders (P4310) and Purchase Order Workbench (P43101) programs.
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement Management system supports the following types of purchase orders for production controlled items:
OP (purchase order)
OT (transfer order)
OK (purchase intercompany order)
OQ (purchase quote or bid)
The Production Number field does not appear on the Work With Order Headers form. The Production Number field appears in the detail grid of the Order Detail form for production number entry.
For the Purchase Order Workbench program, the Production Number field appears in the detail grid of the Purchase Order Workbench form (W43101B).
You cannot update or copy an existing purchase order for production controlled items. You can only create new purchase orders with production numbers. When adding a purchase order, you can include multiple purchase order detail lines with different production numbers and different suppliers.
To associate a production number with a production controlled item in a purchase order detail line, select an existing production number from the Production Number Master File table (F34401) using the Visual Assist button in the Production Number field to access the Production Number Search form (W34401C).
You can also manually enter a production number in a purchase order detail line. However, you cannot automatically generate a production number for a purchase order detail line.
The system does not consolidate purchase orders based on production number.
To cancel an order, you must cancel out of the form but not cancel individual order lines.
The system stores the production number in the following tables:
Purchase Order Detail File (F4311)
Purchase Order Receiver File (F43121)
Item Location Tag File (F41021T)
The system supports creating and receiving purchase orders through electronic data interchange (EDI) using the Inbound Receiving Advice Inquiry program (P47070).