(Available with Order Execution Mgt.)

Description

Substitute Order exchanges the current product item's sales order with the sales order of a product item at a particular location in a specified region.

Important: For substitution to work, the selected item must have an extended attribute named ASSOCIATE that identifies the Item Type of its associated item.

Example

A PRT model is set up to track an assembly that is represented as the Item Type BODY.

The BODY Item Type has an extended attribute ASSOCIATE.

The value of ASSOCIATE is the value of another Item Type, ORDER.

ORDER  may be defined in the same, or another model.

ASSOCIATE attribute attribute values are as follows.

ASSOCIATE attribute of the:	Is assigned the Value of the Order ID of:
Currently selected body item	A body's ASSOCIATE attribute in the specified region location.
Body item in the specified region location	The currently selected body.

All other attributes and status bits are similarly swapped between the currently selected body and the body at the specified region location.

While the example above shows substitution of orders for different bodies, it is also possible to substitute bodies for different orders. You can only substitute the Item Type that is associated with the Item Type you have currently selected.

Notes

Both sales orders and products are items.

You can use this function block if:

Product items exist at some region defined in the current project's RCO database and

Order items exist in either the current project or another running project to which you have access.

You can search for the specified region across multiple projects. Enter a comma-delimited list of project names where the region may be found into the Project ID field and recompile.

Where all item eliminations (by any and all methods) have been completed.

1. Insert another function block such as

	Select Lowest Weight
	Select Source By Age

before Substitute Attributes Order to insure that the most appropriate item(s) are selected.

If you have criteria to determine which item should be selected in case of a tie, specify that criteria in an RSA function block inserted before the Select block.

2. Insert Substitute Order.

Parameters

This function block has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
Region ID	ID of Region where the item is located.
Region Location	Location of the item in the Region. Note: The reserved names PRT_FIRST and PRT_LAST can be entered here to specify the first  or last location, respectively, within the region.
Item Class	Class of the item at this region and location whose associated item (generally of a different class) will be exchanged
Project ID	(Optional) Names of one or more projects in which the selected region may be found. Note: Leave this field blank to limit the search for regions to the local project only.
Project Point ID	(Optional) Text point. Stores a list of project(s). Supercedes Project ID.

More information

	Substitute Attributes and Status.
	Item Associations: ASSOCIATE extended attribute.
	About Order Substitution.
	RSA function blocks list.

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