Multi Purchase From Locations

Hi,

We are curious to see if any other facilities have been able to effectively setup product purchase from locations that allow for a user to purchase items from two different locations.

Example:

We have our Storeroom (warehouse) and our main hopsital locations. we currently setup every product with a purchase from of STRM (storeroom). When our PO's are issued, our buyers have to go in manually and update the purchase from location to "MAIN" before issueing out the PO for 'non-stock" items.

What we are trying to figure out is whether or not anyone has figured out how to set their system up to all the end users to order "stock" items from one location, but also order "non-stock" items from a different location without having to change accounts. Any feedback or assistance in regards to this topic would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks
John

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dechevar

We chose not to set up a non-stock IC12. If it isn't in our warehouse, it automatically orders non-stock.

Our issue at one facility is that we have 2 warehouses, 1 bulk and 1 lum, and users have to switch the from location or it orders non-stock when it is in a warehouse. So I am also curious how others handle the auto-switching.

unknown

We built a PO15 template containing all items we carry in our warehouses. We then added all requesting locations to the participants list. We also include an education piece with this for new requesters. When they log into RQC and go to Find/Shop then down to Templates. This brings them to a template group list screen. We chose to use the Location Template for the WH supply orders. If the requester orders items outside of this template, the orders will go out to PO and to a vendor. With this, we can also lock out our offsite locations so they can't order from the WH. Orders from our primary distributor would arrive there quicker.

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jon-athey

We have 4 medical centers, each with their own location code (IC02- MID, ALM, CLR and GLA) and storeroom. 2 of our medical centers (CLR and GLA) have relatively small storerooms and our primary medical supplier delivers twice a week to these locations so instead of using our couriers to ship stock supplies from MID to CLR or GLA they order them as nonstock from the supplier. We do set up nonstock items in IC12 so that the purchase from can be assigned there.

It's complicated when you have customers that can order from multiple inventory locations and have to switch their From Location on the requisition depending on from where they want to pull the item. We don't have bulk and lum inventory locations but we do allow a few users to order at a lower uom from our SPD. Other than setting up templates and setting up requesters to only use templates in RQ04, it's education, education, education.

unknown

For djechevarr, have you looked at using WH05 Location rules tied to RQ01 so a given (smaller) department pulls first form LUM, then from Bulk warehouse in same company, while large department pulls from Bulk first? Might help some but agree that purchasing templates and education are a way to ease the burden, if you can get people to use templates and not express order. Maybe someday, some advanced "pathing" logic will be built to give us more flexibility.

pcesarz

We struggle with this as well. I entered an enhancement request (# 32128) in the hopes that we could use the replenishment from company/location in IC12.2 for non-stock items and not just inventoried items. I'm not exactly sure how enhancement requests get pulled for Infor to look at them, but if it goes by votes I encourage all of you to vote on it!

jon-athey

You don't need an enhancement. We have nonstock items loaded in IC12 and set replenishment up in IC12.2.

pcesarz

And you use the replenish from company/location instead of the vendor?

unknown

Yes - IC12.2 will let you set it to pull from a warehouse instead of a vendor.

pcesarz

What version are you on? We are on 9.0.9 and it does not work. We can't have a non-stock set up to pull from a stock. When we opened a ticket about it Infor said it won't work and we should enter an enhancement.

jon-athey

I may have misunderstood your post. I thought we were talking about vendor/purchase from locs. You can use IC12.2 company/location for transferring stock from one inventory location to another but you can't use it to direct a nonstock item in one location to be pulled from another location where it's stocked. You either have to change the From Location on the req prior to searching the item, or have it built on a template to pull from the stock location. If the From Location on the req is the nonstock location the system will want to create a PO to the vendor regardless of how IC12.2 is set up.

pcesarz

That is what the enhancement request addresses. We want to use company/location for non-stock to stock as well. Thanks!

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unknown

Sorry - I misunderstood as well.

When you say change the purchase from to MAIN - are you talking about the vendor purch from location or the PO ship to location?

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