Future supply can include the supply that results from planned orders of three types: make, buy, or transfer.

Supplier part numbers are created and maintained in the Product Information Management functional area. This is where you can define and manage items, such as products, services, and components, that you sell, buy, or use in your business processes. You can also associate supplier information with items, such as supplier part numbers, lead times, and prices. Supplier part numbers are used to identify items that you purchase from suppliers or sell to customers using the supplier's terminology.

Overview of Product Information Management

Manage Supplier Part Numbers

These are the two reasons why the Extensible Flexfield (EFF) is not visible in the order capture additional information section. An EFF is a user-defined flexfield that you can use to capture additional information on sales orders, such as trade compliance, call center details, or source order status1. To make an EFF visible in the order capture additional information section, you need to perform the following steps2:

Associate the EFF context with the page: You need to specify which page in the Order Management work area will display the EFF, such as the order header or the order line. You can use the Pages tab in the Manage Order Extensible Flexfields task to associate the EFF context with the page.

Publish the custom extensible flexfields: You need to deploy the EFF to the database and make it available for use. You can use the Deploy Flexfield task to publish the custom extensible flexfields.

Overview of Setting Up Extensible Flexfields in Order Management

Set Up Extensible Flexfields in Order Management

[Manage Order Extensible Flexfields]

[Deploy Flexfield]