Hello,
We’re having an issue with our DMR process and I was wondering if we’re doing something incorrectly. When they fail parts for something like documentation, so we can still accept them once we receive the correct documents, they come up in purchasing suggestions. Is it because they are marking the “purchasing” check off? I cannot find a lot of information on what these check offs prompt:
At this point, we’ve only failed them, we haven’t rejected them.
Hi Diane - We are operating in E10, but I am guessing the functionality is the same. WE also fail incoming inspection for documentation and when any part fails and resides in DMR a PO Suggestion will be generated when there is not enough inventory supply or its purchase direct. We tested all types of options, settings, work-arounds after GoLive and ultimately created a customization that highlights any part in DMR on the NEW PO Suggestions to alert our buyers to do further research before generating the PO.
When something is flagged for inspection, it is removed from on-hand quantity. Epicor will assume all parts marked as nonconforming will be failed, so MRP will want to re-supply. (with the exception of PO Receipt NCF, Epicor will assume these will pass and not try to re-supply)
In this case, would it make more sense to receive the part and create a non conformance as opposed to a DMR? If for some reason we couldn’t get the documentation we would DMR the part and reject it from there.
If these are purchased parts then yes, you would most likely be better off flagging your PO releases as Inspection Required, rather than receiving the parts, and then pulling them out of inventory doing an INVENTORY nonconformance after the fact.
When a PO release is flagged for inspection, when it is received it does not go PUR-STK, it goes PUR-INS and awaits pass/fail. As I mentioned, Epicor treats PUR-INS differently than STK-INS (From an INVENTORY nonconformance) where it will still consider PUS-INS quantity as supply until you actually fail it. STK-INS it will not consider supply because it assumes you are going to fail that quantity.