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Best practice ideas for bulk purchasing for multiple Production orders on Blanket Sales orders

  • June 14, 2023
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This is related to blanket sales orders.  Customer places an order for 500 widgets to be shipped out 50 pcs per month.  Our production process is optimized to make 50 widgets on each production order timed to the desired ship dates.  We can create 10 production orders and then create POs from the 10 production orders, but we get better pricing on the raw materials if we combine the POs and make one bulk purchase.

 

Is there a good way to do this?  We have tried creating a production order for the entire 500 pieces and creating the PO from that Production order, but then we need to create the actual production orders for 50 pieces that the materials will be issued to. It get confusing because the materials are issued to production orders that are not the production order the materials were purchased for.

Best answer by angierowley75

If you use MRP - you can use the consolidation option to have one supply recommendation be generated to cover multiple planned demands.

If you do not user MRP -  you can create one Purchase Order with many lines for the same item to get the price break.  Then for that Material line on the Production Order you can set it as “Mark for PO” and use the “PO Link” button to tie the material to the specific line.

 

 

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  • June 14, 2023

If you use MRP - you can use the consolidation option to have one supply recommendation be generated to cover multiple planned demands.

If you do not user MRP -  you can create one Purchase Order with many lines for the same item to get the price break.  Then for that Material line on the Production Order you can set it as “Mark for PO” and use the “PO Link” button to tie the material to the specific line.

 

 


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  • Jr Varsity III
  • June 30, 2023

You may also consider writing a blanket purchase order linked to the sales order and test if it will give you the same discount when you write the individual purchase orders against the blanket PO.