External Supplies

The External Supplies component shows external material supplies. You can perform these operations:

1. You can select the item numbers for which the external supplies must be displayed.
2. You can change quantities.
3. You can change delivery terms.
4. You can change statuses.
5. You can create new purchase order proposals.

On the Primary behavior tab, you can select the item numbers for which the externally supplies must be displayed.

The external supplies of these order categories are imported as standard:

Code	Description
250	Planned purchase orders proposals
251	Released purchase orders
281	Agreement orders
401	Requisition order return
500	Planned distribution order goods receipt
501	Released distribution order goods receipt
601	Maintenance order return
961	Quality inspection return
101	Outstanding supply from the released manufacturing orders where all operations are finished

If you have performed status changes, then these are displayed in the Status column:

Code	Description
Q	Changed quantity
D	Changed due date
S	Changed status
N	New POP
E	Exported record

If an order is exported to Infor M3 BE, the order status is automatically set to E. Until you reimport the order from the server, you cannot modify it.

If an error is found by the Planning application when reading the orders, an error mark is displayed in the Error mark column:

Code	Description
D	Due date or start date outside the calendar
Q	Quantity is 0 or less