HI GUrus,
Can anyone please throw some light on this scneario on how we can streamline this a little bit.
Current process: we do all third party/subcontracting combination tpye of purchases. we get a sales order from our customer for Material A. Material A is based of material B and material C. So we create a third party PO for material A against a vendor1 with delivery address to customer. Now how does the vendor1 get material B and C, we create another two PO's separately each against Vendor2 and vendor3 for material B and C respectively. Was there a better way of doing this?
Also some times our buyers want to inform the vendor2 and vendor3 much well in advance so that they can produce the materail and ship to vendor1 so that vendor1 can finish the material A in time and ship to customer. So what happens is when our sales directors and customer service folks interact with customers and find out informally that we are going to get sales orders from them, our buyers immeditaely create PO for material A and when the true sales order arrives, they cancel the existing PO and create a PO based off of sales order.
OI'm thinking there must be better ways of doing htese things..
can anyone throw some light
thanks
Ravi