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I’m having a hard time working out the best practices with Dynamics GP for SOP Order Allocation when items weren’t previously available, and I hope that someone can provide insight for me.
First, we’re using GP 10.
We take orders for products that we manufacture ourselves, and for products that we buy-and-re-sell (we’re a distributor for some partner manufacturers)
When we take an order for a product that’s not in stock, we rightfully, can’t allocate the stock, because it’s not here.
- If it’s a manufactured item, the manufacturing group gets the information that there’s a shortfall, and they should schedule an assembly.
- If it’s an item that we re-sell, we issue a PO to the partner/supplier, and ‘link’ it to the Sales Order. (Those PO’s are rarely drop-ship – typically, we bring the material to our facility and forward it on)
So, in case b), when the stock is received on the PO, it’s allocated to the Sales Order. Good.
In case a) though, when the Assembly is posted, the stock isn’t automatically allocated to the Sales Order(s). Instead (right now) we have someone run a Crystal report that shows all unallocated orders and backorders in the system for which there is stock available. Seems manually intensive to me, hence my question about best practices. This is a manufacturing need, and it can’t be unique to us...
I hope I’ve communicated the issue reasonably – if not, I can clarify. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice?
-D
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