Substitute articles or alternate articles in a PR / PO

[Former Member]

We have a requirement:

We have in our business substitute or alternate Articles for some articles. That is Article X can be used in place of Y and so on. There are atleast 3000 such Articles. We do have Electronics stores retail environment - This requirement is for the service center which does repair services. THis scenario is for the spare parts.

What we need is a prompt to the users while creating PRs or Purchase orders that a substitution / alternate Articles exists when he tries to create a PR for the material X.

So when the user enters Articles X in the PR or PO ; the system should prompt the user( preferably )with a POP UP saying that there is an alternative or alternatives (sometimes there could be even Z which is the 2nd alternative) and which are in stock.So the user can decide whether or not to proceed. An informed decision can be made at that time.

Rgds

Sateesh

[former_member431874]

I think there's no such a feature in standard retail system. perhaps, you can try a user exit to popup a msg warning the user that the alternative article(s) is in stock.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

I would even go 1 step before raising a Purchase Requisition....

check in MB5B or MB51 .... search for articles with some common features like description (*), basic material , or some key ... which re quite common in fuzzy search ... and check it availbility.....

Regards

Amitava