Use this function to intervene on a stock line or a group of stock lines. You can thus transfer stock to a supplier location.
The functionalities to be covered by the function are determined by the choice of a stock change transaction of the ‘subcontract transfer’ type that can be set up.

SEEREFERTTO A Subcontract transfers function is also available in VT mode. This function, accessible from a virtual terminal, is used to create subcontract transfer transactions and launch the printing of labels automatically.

Prerequisites

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Screen management

Entry screen

When entering the Sub-contract transfers function, the user must choose a transaction from those set up.

TheSub-contract transfers function is used to transfer stock to a supplier-type location.
SEEREFERTTO See the documentation on Location types for further information.
A transaction performing transfers to a supplier cannot be used for internal movements or inter-site transfer movements simultaneously.

Selection block

The subcontract transfer is performed on a specific note. A same note can group subcontract transfers for several products. It is however necessary to select the stock lines to be modified product by product. The Product field of the Selection header block acts as a filter for stock lines to be moved.

Target block (only available for internal changes)

When intervening on a stock line, you can enter a status and a target location to be applied during the selection. This is significant for mass stock changes. You can, for example, select the stock lines from a location A and specify that for all these lines, the target location is B.

Stock lines block

The Subcontract transfers function is used to intervene on a stock line or a group of stock lines. These stock lines have to be selected by picking in the case of a mass inter-site transfer. They are shown in the Stock Selections panel.
SEEINFO The stock lines are displayed in this selection panel only if a sub-contractor code and a product have been entered in the dedicated fields.
The stock lines selected in this way generate lines on sub-contractor transfer note.

Selection of stock lines
The Stock selection panel is loaded with all the stock lines of the product. These lines can be filtered in order to reduce their number and specify the additional filters in the dedicated window, activated using the Picking criteria button.
The selection is made by picking the displayed lines either one by one or as a group of lines. The selection of a group of lines is made by picking the first line to be selected and the last amongst the lines shown in the selection panel whilst holding the Shift key down: all the lines contained between these two lines are then selected.  To select several groups of stock lines, the Control and Shift keys need to be used.
The stock quantity selected on a line is limited to the available quantity for this stock line (the available stock for each line is shown in the Stock lines selection panel).
Exception for products managed by serial numbers: the picking of serial numbers to be modified can be carried out in several ways: 

  • by a multiple selection of consecutive serial numbers in the selection panel: the system aggregates on a single slip line the group of selected consecutive serial numbers,
  • by selecting line by line the serial numbers to be processed: the system only aggregates serial numbers if the line by line selection is made in consecutive serial number order. As soon as the sequence is broken, the system creates a new slip line.

Sub-contract transfer
The lines on the created slip show, according to the setup of the selected stock change transaction, the source stock information and the target stock information.
According to the role of the transaction used, it is possible to change the target information in order to specify the quantity to be processed, the target location, the target status, the target unit, or the movement description either directly on the document line or via the Stock change sub-contract transfer Detail entry screen if the selected stock must be distributed between several locations, or with several statuses or several units.

When creating the slip, the system generates as many stock movements as there are modified stock lines.
It is not possible to modify a created sub-contract transfer: to modify a previous movement, it is necessary to carry out a movement in the opposite direction. Nevertheless, the detail of the modifications made can be viewed by clicking Movement inquiry from the Actions icon on the slip line.

Transfer to supplier
TheSub-contract transfers function is used to transfer stock to a sub-contractor supplier. You must use a transaction that manages this transfer type. These types of transactions contain a specific selection panel.
A single supplier transfer note can only concern a single sub-contract supplier at a time, the supplier being assigned in the selection panel.

  • If the entered supplier is also defined as a customer, with one or several ship-to customer addresses, then entering a delivery address gives specifications on the ship-to customer and the subcontract location defined for this customer. The sub-contract location field in the stock transfer note is automatically loaded and can no longer be modified. If no location exists for the ship-to customer, the sub-contract location field of the transfer note can be manually entered.
  • If the supplier is not defined as a customer, the system searches the location attached to the supplier (Commercial tab in the Supplier record): this location will be the target location. If no location has been defined for the supplier, it is necessary to enter the target location for the transfer in the stock transfer slip header.

The target location of a transfer to a supplier must be of the sub-contractor type, in this way the stock transferred to a sub-contractor is not confused with the internal physical stock.
When a product transfer is managed in serial number on issue, serial numbers are assigned.
It is possible to bring back stock from the supplier, using the transaction type Sub-contract return.

Reports

By default, the following reports are associated with this function :

  BONTRF : Transfer notes

This can be changed using a different setup.

  • The BONTRF report is a standard report common to internal and external flows.
  • Use the BONTRFEXT - External transfer notes report In order to print more detailed information, such as the Warehouse, Location/Location type, Identifier, Original status and Destination status.

Specific Buttons

Deletion

Selection criteria

This button activates a screen where it is possible to enter several filters: these filters are used to limit the stock lines that will be suggested in the selection panel of stock lines.

Close

Error messages

The only error messages are the generic ones.

Tables used

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