Setup Considerations
You can control the extent to which multilevel sales orders are processed manually or automatically. An automatic SO process is appropriate when a business unit has well-defined links in the item supply chain. For example, an item may always be supplied by the same supplier. A manual SO process is appropriate when the supplier of a particular item varies from order to order.
Multilevel EMT supports automatic, manual, or a combination of automatic and manual sales order processing, depending on the requirements of the business units. This is achieved by providing controls at four key points in the EMT sales order processing cycle:
• An Auto EMT Processing field in Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1) determines whether EMT orders related to the item are created automatically.
• An Auto EMT Processing field in Item-Site Planning Maintenance (1.4.17) determines whether EMT orders related to the item-site are created automatically.
• An Auto EMT Processing field in Supplier Data Maintenance (2.3.1) determines whether EMT orders related to the supplier are created automatically.
• An Auto EMT Processing field in Sales Order Control (7.1.24) determines whether the creation of an EMT sales order across multiple levels is automated within the domain.
Several other differences between standard and multilevel EMT are discussed in the following sections.