Summary
The blanket purchase orders screen allows you to view all information about any blankets in StockIQ.
There are two tabs, the first that allows for a header/detail view of your blankets, and a second, which allows for a flattened view of all your blanket PO Lines. This article walks through the various columns on the Blanket PO's screen.
Column Description
Blanket PO's
The upper grid in this screen shows all open blanket PO's, by header. This data comes from a data feed as part of your integration with your ERP, which may require additional setup if you have not used Blanket PO's in the past. Columns are as follows. Click on a given blanket PO to see lines for your selected blanket PO.
- ERP Blanket PO# - the number given to this BPO by your ERP
- SIQ Blanket PO# - the number given to this BPO by StockIQ, if placed in SIQ
- Order Date - the date this BPO was placed
- Skip Mfr Time - This one is important!
- Enabled - This is for the scenario where when you place a blanket PO, you are requesting that the manufacturer being manufacturing immediately, and expect to be able to take delivery of at least some the quantity on that BPO after a certain date. when enabled, StockIQ will calculate an anticipated completion date for inventory in this order, and use it to plan reduced lead time (ignoring manufacturing LT) for releases/shipments against those BPO lines.
- Disabled - Your blanket is a "soft" order, in that you are merely reserving capacity or perhaps a certain price. When issuing a release against a blanket, it only reduces quantity on the blanket, you do not get any manufacturing time reductions/improvements.
- # Lines - how many lines on the order
- Sync Status - if this BPO is synced to the ERP or not
Blanket PO Lines
Each line is displayed in the second grid. Most columns are self-explanatory. Some additional detail is below. If you click on a given BPO line, any releases against that blanket PO line will be shown in the third grid at the bottom of the screen.
- Order Qty - The amount ordered on this blanket, e.g. the original order quantity requested.
- Released Quantity - How much has been released off of this blanket? This is calculated by looking at supply order lines that reference this Blanket PO# / Line # in your data feeds.
- Remaining Qty - How much is remaining on this blanket to release against, after the releases have all been removed.
- Purchase Cost - Purchase cost reserved on this blanket
- First possible Ship - based on admin lead time and manufacturing lead time, when is the first possible date that this line would be available to ship from your suppliers
Details Tabs
This shows Supply Order Line detail for any lines that have been released against a given blanket. All columns available such as in the Order History screen are available.
Note that it is likely your data feeds from the ERP must be configured/modified to reference any blanket PO's if you have not previously been using blanket PO data. Please contact StockIQ to coordinate.