Create Subcontract Order – A summary of the activity

This activity allows you to create a Subcontract Order (SCO). Subcontracting refers to a business scenario in which an enterprise decides to off-load all or part of its operations to an outside agency at an agreed price, terms and conditions. The reasons for subcontracting could be strategic consideration of core competency, economic make or buy consideration, supply side market condition or capacity bottleneck of the enterprise.

A Subcontract Order can be used to consolidate the sourcing and procurement of items and services spread across divisions and manufacturing plants. This activity allows you to provide the details pertaining to the SCO such as the list of items to be issued to the supplier, the terms and conditions pertaining to the SCO and the taxes, charges and discount details pertaining to the SCO, and attach notes to the SCO.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

Prerequisites

• “Create Service Main Information” activity of the “Part Administration” business component

• “Create Numbering Class” activity of the “Document Numbering Class” business component

• “Create UOM” activity of the “Unit of Measurement Administration” business component

• “Register Supplier” activity of the “Supplier” business component

• “Add Supplier to Location” activity of the “Supplier” business component

• “Maintain Currency Information” activity of the“Enterprise Setup” business component

• “Create TCD” activity of the “TCD” business component

• “Create Additional Account  Definition” activity of the “Account Rule” business component

• “Maintain Purchase  Definition” activity of the “Cost Centre Rule Definintion” business component

What you can do in this activity

Create a subcontract order

Authorize a subcontract order

Specify the Issue list of the subcontract order

Specify the Receipt list of the subcontract order

Specify the terms and conditions of the subcontract order

Enter tax, charge and discount details for subcontract order

Specify schedule and distribution details of the subcontract order

Specify user-defined details and document references for the subcontract order

Generating a subcontract order report

Create a subcontract order

You can create a subcontract order.

• Use the “Create Subcontract Order  ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

Authorize a subcontract order

You can authorize a subcontract order

Use the “Authorize subcontract Order” page to authorize a subcontract order.

Specify the issue list of the subcontract order

You can specify the issue list information such as the part number, constituent type, preferred condition and location for the part.

 Use the “Create Subcontract Order” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

 Use the “Edit Issue List” page to record all the details pertaining to the issue list of the subcontract order.

Specify the receipt list of the subcontract order

You can specify receipt list information such as part number, constituent type, warehouse number and positive and negative tolerance for the part.

 Use the “Create Subcontract Order ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

 Go to the “Edit Receipt List” page to record all the details pertaining to the receipt list of the subcontract order.

Specify the terms and conditions of the subcontract order

You can specify the shipping information, payment details for the supplier and other terms and conditions in the subcontract order.

• Use the “Create Subcontract Order ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

• Go to the “Edit Terms and Conditions“ page to define the terms and conditions.

Enter tax, charge and discount details for subcontract order

You can enter the TCD details such as the duty, sales tax, discount and freight charges. The TCD values affect the SCO either positively or negatively.

• Use the “Create Subcontract Order ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

• Go to  “Edit Document TCD Details” page to specify the tax, charge and discount details for  the subcontract order.

Specify schedule and distribution details of the subcontract order

You can enter the schedule and distribution details such as the schedule number, schedule quantity and the accepted quantity for the subcontract order.

 Use the “Create Subcontract Order” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

 Go to the “Edit Schedule and Distribution Details” page to define schedule and distribution details.

Specify user-defined and document references for the subcontract order

Use the “Create Subcontract Order ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

 Go to the “Edit User-Defined Details” page to specify user-defined details.

Go to the “Edit  References” page to specify document references for the subcontract order.

Generating a Subcontract order report

Use the “Create Subcontract Order ” page to record all the details pertaining to the subcontract order.

Go to the “Generate SCO Report” page to generate the subcontract order report.