Order proposals
Order proposals is your buying list, and it fills itself. Whenever something is needed and not available, equipme works out what has to be bought and puts it here.
You never create a proposal. If something you expect is missing, the cause is upstream, not on this page.
Where demand comes from
Two sources, and they are easy to confuse because they arrive in the same row.
A customer order that cannot be served from stock. Three things have to be true for it to reach this page: the service has a released mapping, that mapping contains articles, and the order has been confirmed. Miss any one and the position sits at Awaiting purchase with nothing to buy against it.
Your own minimum inventory. Where a product has a minimum stock level, equipme keeps proposing whatever it takes to get back to it, with no customer behind it at all.
So the quantity in the list is not simply the number of customers waiting. Click the row and a window opens listing exactly what the demand is made of: each customer order with its number, and a separate line for minimum inventory.
The two are not added together. The larger one wins, because restocking to your minimum already covers the customer who is waiting.
The quantity can be edited in that window. Use it when you disagree with the proposal, for example when you want the one device the customer needs and not the stock buffer as well.
Two tabs, two different jobs
Stock purchase is what you buy for your own warehouse: you receive it, book it in, pick it and ship it.
Dropshipping is what your distributor sends straight to the customer. Nothing passes through your hands.
Which tab demand lands in follows the service configuration, not a decision you make here.
On a dropshipping proposal, look at the delivery address before ordering. It comes from the location in the customer's order and it is where your distributor will actually ship. Getting it wrong means the device arrives at the wrong office.
Turning demand into an order
Select what you want to buy and click Order.
The reason demand collects here rather than triggering an order per item is that you can combine positions into one purchase order, as long as they go to the same supplier. Five customers ordering the same notebook this week is one order to your distributor, not five.
Only the supplier is mandatory, prefilled from the product. Everything else can be added later as information comes back, so nothing stops you placing the order today.
Still, three things are worth entering while you are there: the distributor's order number, so the delivery can be matched to it; the expected delivery date, which your warehouse sees in Goods receipt; and the real unit price, if it differs from the default in the product master data.
What changes afterwards
The demand disappears from this list and a purchase order exists under Orders.
The position itself does not move yet. Its Purchase demand block now names the purchase order, but the status stays where it was until the goods are booked in through Goods receipt.
From this point the position is steered from Purchasing. On a dropshipping position the status field is disabled entirely, and whatever you record on the purchase order is what moves it.
If something looks wrong
A position waits at Awaiting purchase but no demand appears
The mapping is not released, or contains no articles
The quantity is higher than the number of customers waiting
A minimum inventory level is topping it up. Open the row to see the breakdown
Demand appears with no customer behind it at all
Same reason. It is a restock, not an order
Demand appears under the wrong tab
The provisioning type on the service is set the other way
The delivery address is not what you expect
It comes from the location in the customer's order
The price is wrong
The default on the product is out of date. Overwrite it on the order
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