Project Material Management: Drop-Shipment of Materials

You may need to purchase items and have the vendor deliver them directly to the project site.

In this case, you create a project drop-ship order by doing the following on the Project Materials (PM306500) form:

  1. Selecting the Project Drop-Ship provisioning source for the needed material lines
  2. Clicking Create Purchase Order on the table toolbar

The system creates purchase orders of the Project Drop-Ship type on the Purchase Orders (PO301000) form. Each project drop-ship order includes all material lines with the same vendor.

When a project drop-ship order for a material line is created, the system updates these columns in the line on the Project Materials form:

  • Qty. on Orders: The quantity in the corresponding purchase order line
  • Qty. Awaiting Delivery: The quantity in the corresponding purchase order line to be received in the warehouse
  • Status: Awaiting Delivery
  • Provisioning Doc. Ref. Nbr.: The Project Drop-Ship type and reference number

For details about processing project drop shipments with a receipt, see Purchases to the Project Site with a Receipt: General Information.