Min/Max Internal Orders 1 Requisition

Question

We are running Min/Max planning to replenish stock in an "Emergency Warehouse" organization. The requisition import kicks off internal orders to a replenishment organization. The planner in the replenishment organization would like one order for each Min/Max run. The requisition group-by default in Purchasing parameters is vendor yet we are still seeing one unique requisition for each item thus creating one unique internal sales order per item. Thoughts?

Answer 1

Stick wrote:
The requisition group-by default in Purchasing parameters is vendor yet we are still seeing one unique requisition for each item thus creating one unique internal sales order per item. Thoughts?In this case the requisitions will not be grouped by Vendor because the supply source is Inventoy which is creating internal requisitions and not purchasing requisition (source is Supplier/ Vendor).
It is important to know how you are importing requisitions and what value is specified for Group By parameter during import. The value you setup in Purchasing Options defaults in the Requisition Import request parameter screen, but this can be changed before submission. So it is possible in your case that requisitions are imported using a different group by than what is specified in Purchasing Options.
From the list of different group by options available (All, Buyer, Category, Item, Supplier) you can probably use 'Location' during requisition import.
Location: Group requisition lines for each delivery location on a separate requisition.
But this will not guarantee 100% success because:
- If you import requisitions with source as INV then those can include requisitions from different INV sources generated from Reorder, Kanban etc having same delivery location. In that case all those requisitions will be grouped under a single header having same location.
- there may be different users running requisition import manually and some may forget to change this group by parameter (defaulted from purchasing options) while importing Min-Max planned requisitions (again they cannot segregate Min-Max, they can just specify INV as source)
A better solution would be to use the oracle provided custom hook (po_reqimp_pkg.post_validate_user_extensions) for requisition import to populate the GROUP_CODE column in PO_REQUISITIONS_INTERFACE table. The logic inside the hook should identify the rows in the interface table generated from each run of Min-Max and populate a unique value for all those rows in the GROUP_CODE column. You need a small piece of code to be added inside the hook.
You can also use REQ_NUMBER_SEGMENT1 column in the interface table to populate an unique value for all rows you want to group together. But in this case the value you specify will become the requisition number if there are no conflicts with the requisition number rule. Both these column, when populated, have precedence over Group by parameter. 1st priority GROUP_CODE (if populated). If GROUP_CODE is not populated then it checks REQ_NUMBER_SEGMENT1. If this is also blank then it uses Group By parameter.
Thanks
Supro