Elizabeth,
If you are doing PO receipt Inspection processing, you'll find that once in DMR, you can fail disposition (create your own reason code for Return To Vendor) &Â initiate a debit memo.
That debit memo can be the basis of your document to then do a Misc Shipment of the failed material to go back to the vendor.
It is somewhat of a sloppy process as DMR failure actually removes the inventory from your system (hence the need for a Misc Shipment) & that seems to very much confuse people. (Those people might not always be internal... It could be a less sophisticated 'mom and pop' supplier that just doesn't want to deal with all the accounting & purchasing steps involved.)Â
The other 'gotcha' (that is technically correct from a strict accounting standpoint) is that the Buyer of the failed material needs to generate a new PO release to replace th4e failed/RTV/debited material.
It is not a particularly intuitive process and we have found people struggle with it. It never ceases to amaze me how quick people are to take a 'shortcut' (that seems quite valid from their perspective) that creates hours of work later (for someone else) to straighten out.
I suggest you mirror the systemic process with a form-based 'people process' to better insure all the right people get involved when an inspection failure occurs... That way, if/when someone misses a beat on the systemic process, you at least have a way to audit what went wrong, reinforce training, perhaps improve process documentation - and equally importantly: make sure the systemic process lapses are corrected (so your accounting is correct, your inventory is accurate, and your material planning reactions are appropriate).
Rob Brown
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From: elizabeth woning <elizabeth@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 5:24:05 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Return Inventory to Supplier
Can anyone tell me whether there is a document in Vantage that allows for return of purchased materials? I see the RMA is for manufactured materials.
Am I missing something?
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If you are doing PO receipt Inspection processing, you'll find that once in DMR, you can fail disposition (create your own reason code for Return To Vendor) &Â initiate a debit memo.
That debit memo can be the basis of your document to then do a Misc Shipment of the failed material to go back to the vendor.
It is somewhat of a sloppy process as DMR failure actually removes the inventory from your system (hence the need for a Misc Shipment) & that seems to very much confuse people. (Those people might not always be internal... It could be a less sophisticated 'mom and pop' supplier that just doesn't want to deal with all the accounting & purchasing steps involved.)Â
The other 'gotcha' (that is technically correct from a strict accounting standpoint) is that the Buyer of the failed material needs to generate a new PO release to replace th4e failed/RTV/debited material.
It is not a particularly intuitive process and we have found people struggle with it. It never ceases to amaze me how quick people are to take a 'shortcut' (that seems quite valid from their perspective) that creates hours of work later (for someone else) to straighten out.
I suggest you mirror the systemic process with a form-based 'people process' to better insure all the right people get involved when an inspection failure occurs... That way, if/when someone misses a beat on the systemic process, you at least have a way to audit what went wrong, reinforce training, perhaps improve process documentation - and equally importantly: make sure the systemic process lapses are corrected (so your accounting is correct, your inventory is accurate, and your material planning reactions are appropriate).
Rob Brown
________________________________
From: elizabeth woning <elizabeth@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 5:24:05 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Return Inventory to Supplier
Can anyone tell me whether there is a document in Vantage that allows for return of purchased materials? I see the RMA is for manufactured materials.
Am I missing something?
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