How to: Create Purchase, Transfer, and Sales Orders from Allocation Plan Distribute

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To access the created documents

To delete and recreate documents

To perform Open-to-Buy checks

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  1. Click the icon, enter Allocation Plan List, and select the relevant link.
  2. Open an existing Allocation Plan Distribute, or create a new one. For more information refer to How to: Create an Allocation Plan Distribute.
  3. Create Allocation Plan Distribute Lines manually, or click the Add Item Lines action.
  4. Change the quantities to distribute as needed. For more information refer to How to: Adjust Quantities in the Allocation Plan Distribute.
  5. Click the Create Documents action.
  6. Confirm the question in the dialog window.
  7. Select the applicable options. Finalize the document creation by clicking the Create Documents action.
  8. The system informs how many documents were created.

Note: The number of created document lines can be seen in the fields No. of PO Lines Created, No. of TO Lines Created, and No. of SO Lines Created in the Allocation Plan Distribute Lines. You can display or hide these fields with the Show/Hide Doc. Creation fields action in the Line action group. This information is also displayed in the Allocation Plan Documents FactBox.

To access the created documents

  1. Click the icon, enter Allocation Plan List, and select the relevant link.
  2. Open an existing Allocation Plan Distribute with documents created.
  3. Select the Allocation Plan Documents FactBox and click the number which represents the created documents.
  4. Alternatively, select the fields No. of PO Lines Created, No. of TO Lines Created, or No. of SO Lines Created in the Allocation Plan Distribute Lines, and click the number to drill down to the documents.
  5. Click the Show Unposted Document action in the pop-up page to open the respective document.

To delete and recreate documents

  1. Click the icon, enter Allocation Plan List, and select the relevant link.
  2. Open an existing Allocation Plan Distribute with documents created.
  3. Select the Allocation Plan Documents FactBox and click the number which represents the created documents.
  4. Alternatively, select the fields No. of PO Lines Created, No. of TO Lines Created, or No. of SO Lines Created in the Allocation Plan Distribute Lines, and click the number to drill down to the documents.
  5. Click the Show Unposted Document action in the pop-up page to open the document.
  6. Delete the document.
  7. Repeat Steps 3 to 6 as needed.
  8. Select the Create Documents check box in the Allocation Plan Distribute Lines for the item that you want to recreate documents for.
  9. Change the quantities to distribute as needed. For more information refer to How to: Adjust Quantities in the Allocation Plan Distribute.
  10. Click the Create Purchase Orders, Transfer Orders, Sales Orders action.

To perform Open-to-Buy checks

  1. Click the icon, enter Allocation Plan List, and select the relevant link.
  2. Open an existing Allocation Plan Distribute that is ready for Purchase Order Creation.
  3. Fill in the Open-to-Buy Date. This date will be used to perform an Open-to-Buy check on this Allocation Plan.
  4. Click the Check Open-to-Buy action.
  5. If the check is successful, the system shows a notification message. If the check fails, the system redirects to the Open-to-Buy Log page. For more information on Open-to-Buy checks refer to How to: Perform Open-to-Buy Checks on Allocation Plans .

See also

Allocation Rule

Allocation Plan Distribute

Manual Replenishment

Open-to-Buy