Way to indicate additonal work?

What kind of additional processing are you talking about? Is this something your receiving staff is responsible for? You might be able to use ProcessFlow (v9) or Infor Process Automation (v10) to kick of an email to someone letting them know the item was received and that additional processing needs to occur.

We have certain items need additonal processing in other programs. So, it would be nice if Lawson would help remind us when these items come in, we need to log the material in our other programs.

Thanks!

This is exactly the type of process that Design Studio is perfect for. You can perform edit checks and either pop-up an alert or add a status bar message to indicate the add'l processing that is required.

Another option if you don't have the resources for IPA or Design studio or if this process doesn't apply to every item in your item master: You could also set up the item so that they require inspection before being released in PO30. This is setup in IC12 and can also be updated in PO20. After being received in PO30, someone must "accept" or "reject" in PO34 before the PO30 is released.

David - where would the information reside? I'm looking for a way to indicate that an X type item was a sub or one-time purchase, etc on PO20 that we can use to report on.

Substitute items are marked as substitutes on the Receiver. It's hard to validate 'X' type items in PO history since the vendor number might not be keyed the same way, missing dashes, etc. but you can perform a query to search for that 'X' type item in purchase history.

Kat - How about using a UF or line comment? Could also use "User Analysis" if you aren't using it for anything else if you didn't want the staff adding too many extra clicks. The substitute vendor item feature would work for item master items too, but can be a lot of extra work for items you may not use again or want to associate with the original mmis #.

The UA might work. Also Design Studio to move Purchasing Major/Minor somewhere more visible. Just looking for ideas at this point.

Great ideas! Thanks everyone!

Hi, so I checked into the 'need inspection' option (checked in IC12) so when the item is received in PO30, it would be 'flagged' as needing further action/inspection. What I saw and (received clarification from Lawson) is.;

When a 'inspection required' item is received in PO30, it does not give you any message when releasing, it also does not print a delivery ticket. So you would need to go in PO130 and run that, which would then indicate the item required inspection, Once the record is inspected in PO34, then you can print delivery ticket from PO30.    Does anyone use this?  It seems a bit ridiculous, not intuitive and certainly not user friendly with all these extra steps and no 'flags' for the person receiving????

 

Sheri,

That's exactly why we don't use the "needs inspection" function. We have MSCM receiving and it just makes it that much worse with no popups and nothing to indicate the issue until we look at errors. Our work around for when we need inspection is to add it to the deliver to.

Everything that comes into our facility with an AC cord needs to be checked for electrical safety so a PO for Purchasing for example would say in the deliver to: SftyCK / Purchasing. This tells Receiving to call the electricians to have them bring up their machine and check the product before it is delivered.

Items going to our Biomed department for logging, testing and processing before getting to the floor (everything mechanical that will touch the patient) all have the Biomed phone number in front of the end department (34748/Cardio).

It's a little clunky in terms of having to edit the line but it does work.

Michelle

Hi Den, when inspection required is selected it will release the receiver in PO30 putting the inventory quantity "on hold", the creates a PO34 Inspection, until it is accepted it won't become an available quantity to allocate.

It should give a message in PO30 to let you know, maybe an enhancement request!? You could customize with design studio as noted in the other comments, but if you have IPA there is a flow that can be used to notify the inspector to take action (po34).

Thanks Michelle, hard to understand why Lawson would make it so cumbersome. You have a good work around, thanks for sharing.

 

Sheri