Use the External operation shipments form to register the parts or product components you are sending to a supplier to have them subjected to an external operation. When shipping the parts or components, you can also include any equipment that may be required to perform the external operation.
You can only send parts, components and equipment items that are linked to the external operation within a product calculation. To display a list of goods to be shipped, use the buttons at the bottom of the form: Parts, Equipment, Components.
To register multiple shipments at the same time, you can also have the shipping lines created automatically. In that case, you will not have to manually create a shipping line for each shipment.
Once the shipping lines have been created, you process the lines by creating shipping notes. The production order data are now updated, to enable you to view the shipping details on the production order form. The shipping notes areadded to the Shipping notes for external operations file.
Note: Shipping lines need to be authorized before they can be processed. You can authorize a shipping line by selecting the Authorization check box.
This is the purchase order line on which the outsourcing job was ordered. Every shipping line you create will correspond to a purchase order line. The data relating to this line are retrieved automatically and cannot be modified at this location.
This is the date on which you will ship the goods for the outsourcing job. The date of the purchase order line will be filled in automatically, but can be changed where required.
This is the quantity you will ship on the shipping date. This quantity does not have to be equal to the quantity specified on the purchase order line. You can make a partial shipment, or send more or fewer components than initially determined in the preliminary costing phase.
Select this check box to indicate that the line has been approved and that a shipping note can be created for this line. Shipping notes can be created only for authorized shipping lines.
Select this check box to indicate that no more shipments will be made on this purchase order line. Selecting this check box will confirm the line as complete. Leave this check box empty if you are making a partial shipment.
This is a list of the parts, components, and equipment items that must be sent for the external operation. If present, they are retrieved from the production calculation, but they also can be added using the corresponding buttons on the External operation shipments form.
Purchase order