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Requisition management in Smart Materials is the process of:

  • Adding additional information to a requisition generated by a material take off (MTO) job.

  • Handling revision of data due to bill of materials (BOM) changes.

  • Releasing requisitions to procurement.

The main screen that requisitions focus on is R.30.01 Maintain Requisitions. The hierarchy of requisition nodes has been defined using nodes and templates as discussed in Intergraph Smart Materials A-Z Training - Create Requisition MTO. On R.30.01, the nodes appear in the order defined by the delivered system.

In Smart Materials, a requisition refers to an engineering material (or services) requisition. It contains the required material quantity plus contingency, specification, and requirement definitions from the engineering department. The requisition is released to the Procurement module of Smart Materials (MSCM) for further action; for example, to create an inquiry, make an addition to a blanket order, and so forth.

The power behind this module centers on a process called the ā€˜MTO Jobā€™. This process reviews all the material in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and transmits it into the requisition structure. The requisition structure is how the procurement department prefers to view the material groups.

The graphic below illustrates the Bill of Materials (BOM) in the WBS.

The BOM contains all material organized according to the WBS. This structure is familiar to the Engineering department and is suited for the collection of bills of materials from design sources.

The next step is to run an MTO job with various runtime parameters in compliance with the requirements. This process/job can be run every time a new MTO is loaded or at specific milestones in a project. The result of this process is the generation of requisitions.

The requisitions contain all material quantity information. Any other information that is required to be passed from Engineering to Procurement, such as specifications, VDRs, and delivery destinations, is added after the requisition has been generated. Smart Materials provides requisition tools to maintain and modify the requisitions that have been created by MTO jobs.

Finally, the requisitions must be approved and released to procurement for the following inquiry and agreement processes.