Workshops and Study Questions
Supplier Schedules Setup Workshop
Situation:
You operate a company that makes juice drinks. One of the products that you purchase are the bottles for the drinks. For this product you have two suppliers.
1 Select two suppliers.
Record the supplier codes: ___________ ___________
What program do you use to create the suppliers?
2 Create a purchase part number for the bottles.
Record the site: _________
What program do you use to create the part? What field tells the system it is a purchased part?
3 Set up supplier item numbers for your item numbers.
Record the supplier item number: _________ _________
What program do you use?
4 Set up a price list for each of your suppliers
Make the price list code the same as the supplier codes.
Which program do you use for this?
5 Add the price list code to the supplier information.
What program do you use to do this? Which field?
6 Set up a calendar for each of your suppliers. Make one supplier have every Friday as a non-work day and the other one have every Wednesday as a non-work day. How do you indicate a non-work day?
7 Set up a scheduled order for each supplier.
a Record each order number: __________ __________
b Accept the defaults in the Order Data frame. You want to be able to print the schedules. What field do you have to check?
c In the first Order Line Item Data frame, enter the price list code. Accept the remaining defaults.
d In the second Order Line Item Data frame enter the following:
|
Field
|
Data
|
|
Firm Days:
|
0
|
|
Schedule Days:
|
14
|
|
Schedule Weeks:
|
6
|
|
Schedule Months:
|
6
|
|
Fab Auth Days:
|
30
|
|
Raw Auth Days:
|
60
|
|
Ship/Dlvy Pattern:
|
20
|
|
Standard Pack Qty:
|
<different for each supplier>
|
What program do you use and what field must be set to Yes?
8 Input a 16 week forecast for the item, starting next week. Be imaginative with your numbers.
What program do you use?
9 Run selective MRP for your item number and site. Accept the defaults.
What program do you use?
10 Where can you check the results? What type of orders should you see?
11 The scheduled order is to be shared between your two suppliers. How do you set this up?
Supplier Schedules Setup Study Questions
1 You can use any type of price list for supplier schedules.
True or False
2 One of your suppliers shuts down for two weeks every summer. What do you have to do to make sure no orders are scheduled during that two week period?
3 You need to set up a supplier calendar for each of your suppliers.
True or False
4 If you are ordering more than one item from the same supplier, you need to set up a scheduled order for each item.
True or False
5 You want to make sure the orders are shipped in multiples of 25. What do you have to set?
6 Since you only have one supplier, you do not need to allocate supply percentages in Scheduled Order MRP% Maintenance.
True or False
Processing Supplier Schedules Workshop
Situation:
You have your MRP-planned purchase orders and are now ready to create the release.
1 Create a new supplier schedule release.
What program do you use?
2 Review the schedule release. What can you use to do this?
3 Print a copy of the schedule release.
What program do you use?
4 How does the standard pack quantity affect the orders?
Scheduled Order Processing Study Questions
1 List the ways you can transmit a schedule release to your supplier.
2 If you are exporting your schedule release, what information do you need to set up before you can export the release?
3 You can transmit the schedule release using more than one method.
True or False
Receiving Supplier Schedules Workshop
Situation:
The shipments from both suppliers have arrived and need to be received into inventory.
1 Receive each shipment separately using the direct receiving method.
What program do you use?
2 Print a copy of the schedule release.
What program do you use?
3 Compare this copy to the copy you printed at the time of processing. What is different?
Check the header information.
Receiving Supplier Schedules Study Questions
1 List the ways you can receive notification from your supplier that they have shipped your order.
2 List the ways you can process the shipment.
Supplier Schedules Setup Workshop: Answers
1 Basic address information comes from the Financials setup; use Supplier Data Maintenance (2.3.1) to specify additional details.
2 Use Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1), the Pur/Mfg field.
3 Use Supplier Item Maintenance (1.19).
4 Use Price List Maintenance (1.10.2.1).
5 Use Supplier Data Maintenance (2.3.1). Enter the price code in the Supplier Pricing Data frame, Disc Tbl field.
6 Use Supplier Calendar Maintenance (5.5.1.1). Set the weekday in question to No under Work Day and 0 under Hours.
7 Use Supplier Scheduled Order Maintenance (5.5.1.13).
Print Schedules must be set to Yes.
8 Use Forecast Maintenance (22.1).
9 Use Selective Materials Plan (22.3).
10 Use MRP Summary Inquiry (22.13) or MRP Detail Inquiry (23.16). You should see planned orders (designated as work orders).
11 Use Scheduled Order MRP% Maintenance (5.5.1.17). Assign a percentage to each order.
Supplier Schedules Setup Study Questions: Answers
1 False. Price tables (type L) are not used for supplier schedules.
2 Set up a supplier calendar using Supplier Calendar Maintenance (5.5.1.1). In the Operating Day Hour Exceptions frame, define the beginning and ending dates of the shut down period.
3 False. If a supplier calendar is not set up, the system uses your shop calendar.
4 False. You can use the same scheduled order, just add a line item for each item you are ordering from the supplier.
5 You need to set the Std Pack Qty (Standard Pack Quantity) field in Supplier Scheduled Order Maintenance (5.5.1.13). To ship in multiples of 25, you set the field to 25.
6 False. Allocate 100% to the order.
Processing Supplier Schedules Workshop
1 Use Schedule Update from MRP (5.5.3.1).
2 Use Schedule Maintenance (5.5.3.3) or Schedule Inquiry (5.5.3.4.
3 Use Schedule Print (5.5.3.8.)
4 Open quantities are adjusted accordingly.