Link blanket Purchase Orders to planning Lines
Planning of purchase orders can be executed using the business central functionality Requisition worksheet or Planning worksheet. This new feature is build in both worksheet as an extra functionality. Business Central doesn't support the automatic link between planning lines, blanket orders and purchase orders.
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Execution
To link blanket purchase order to planning lines , we should follow the steps below :
- Choose the
icon, enter Requisition Worksheet or Production worksheets. - Open the worksheet that you want.
- On the Ribbon, select Calculate Plan The Calculate Plan Page appears
- Set the desired Options on the Options FastTab
- Set the desired Filters on the Item FastTab
- Click OK
The Worksheet page will be filled with lines that need action.
If there exists a Blanket Order for an item (and the criteria described below are met), the Blanket Order No. and Blanket Order Line No. of the Blanket Order will be entered by Manufacturing Accelerator in the corresponding columns.
In this case, the fields Vendor No. and Vendor Item No are updated to the values of these of the Blanket Order.
It is still possible for the user to remove the values in the fields Blanket Order No. and Blanket Order Line No. Doing so will reset the fields Vendor No. and Vendor Item No. to the values on the Item Card of the Item.
When multiple contracts are available, user interaction is required.
Note
The Blanket Order will only be selected for the Requisition Worksheet or Planning worksheets if following criteria are met:
- The Due Date of the Action on the Requisition Worksheet lies within the Document Date and Valid Until Date of the Blanket Order.
- The Outstanding Quantity on the Blanket Order is higher than the Quantity needed for the Action on the Requisition Worksheet.
