Hi experts -
I was reading through the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/inventory/consignment on Consignment Purchase arrangement (from the perspective that Vendor brings the inventory to my warehouse and I use it, and change ownership). The process I understood there is as below;
1. Consignment Replenishment Order => 2. Physically receive the inventory => 3. Update Consignment Replenishment Order with Quantity (qty only) => 3. Physical inventory becomes on-hand => 4. On-hand quantity can be now reserved for production orders => 5. Ready to use/Use => 6. Change Ownership => 7. PO Created
However, I still have below clarifications or concerns over the solution.
i. What will trigger the Consignment Replenishment Order? will that be coming from the MRP? Because we have to use MRP also for the planning of this material
ii. In our process, we need to generate incoming quality testing (quality order) upon physical receiving of goods (i.e. at 2 above), so that we keep all materials tested and ready to use whenever we want. Will this be possible?
iii. At which point the incoming batch number is created? in our practice, we have a batch number created at the time of performing the incoming quality test.
iv. For the change ownership, can we set up an approval workflow?
v. In our practice, we generate a PO to the supplier at the start of the process i.e. to send the PO to supplier, and suppliers delivers materials continuously on that PO to our premises on consignment and this PO becomes the communication. However, in D365 solution, there is no way that we could communicate this requirement to the supplier.
Thanks for clarifying these.
