Supply User Manual ENG -> 4. Procurement -> 4.3 LU-SU3102: Orders Sourcing Tool (OST) -> F. How to resource.
F. How to resource
UniField allows flexibility in sourcing and changing/reversing the sourcing of goods after a sourcing method has been chosen. In the Orders Sourcing Tool, decisions are taken as to whether the order (IR /FO) line will be sourced from stock (leading to PICK, OUT or INT) or on order (leading to Tender, RFQ, PO or DPO) and for some documents (RFQ, PO, DPO) the supplier will also be chosen at this stage. However it can be necessary to change this decision based on the circumstances, e.g. the chosen supplier can no longer provide goods, or storekeeper finds actually there are no goods in stock, so cannot fulfill the PICK created.
In these situations it is necessary to change the sourcing channel chosen (e.g. order should be sourced to a different supplier, or order cannot be sourced from stock so it should be resourced to a PO). With this need in mind, the resourcing functionality has been developed in order to be able to resource key documents.
It is only possible to cancel & resource documents which have a preceding document flow (e.g. PO created from an FO). You may either resource a specific line of a document or resource the complete document.
However, the document (line) can only be cancelled & resourced if it has not been completed, and if the next document (line) in the chain has not been created (e.g. a PO (line) can be cancelled & resourced if it is in “Draft” or “Validated” status, but not if it has been confirmed, as at this point there will be an Incoming Shipment (IN) available. If the PO (line) has been confirmed then user should resource on the Incoming Shipment.
When the user resources a document (line), the cancelled lines will take the status “cancelled-r” while on the preceding document, the corresponding lines will take the status “cancelled-r” and new lines in state “resourced-v” will be created, ready to be resourced through the OST.
Please see the details of the resourcing process per type of transaction in the related transactions Learning Unit.
