Drop Ship Lightning Experience
This feature enables you to transition your Drop Ship Fulfillment Process from the current Classic implementation into a streamlined version that takes advantage of new features in Lightning.
The Drop Ship Lightning Experience feature introduces the following changes:
| Page |
Changes |
|---|---|
| AP Line View Page |
Replaces the AP Line View Visualforce page with a new Lightning Record Page. This new page includes a Lightning Action component with the following actions:
For more information, see Creating AP Voucher Lines. |
| AP Voucher Line Record Page |
Adds a new Lightning button:
This button enables you to associate serial numbers to a Drop Ship AP Voucher Line. For more information, see Creating AP Voucher Lines. |
| Sales Order Lightning Record Page |
Adds a new Lightning Actions component with the following actions:
For more information, see Creating a Purchase Order. |
To enable this feature, work through the steps in the order shown.
- For each automatic step, click Perform. When the step has completed, the Status changes from "Not Done" to "Done".
- For each manual step, follow the instructions on screen and then click Mark As Done when the step is complete. More information about performing the manual steps is provided below.
When you have completed all the steps, use the Status slider in the Feature section to enable the feature.
Manually Adding AP Voucher Lines as a Related List on AP Voucher
You must manually add the AP Voucher Lines related list to your page layouts for the AP Voucher object.
You can do this as follows:
- From Setup, click Object Manager | AP Voucher | Page Layouts.
- Click the page layout you want to add the related list to.
- Click Related Lists in the palette.
- Drag the AP Voucher Lines related list to the Related Lists section.
- Save your changes.
Manually Adding and Removing Fields in Field Sets
This section describes the fields that you must manually add or remove from certain field sets in order to use the Drop Ship Lightning Experience feature. This required for the feature to work as expected, but you can add or remove any other fields from the field sets according to your users' needs.
For information on how to add or remove fields from a field set, search for "Creating and Editing Field Sets" in the Salesforce Help.
Fields to be added
To use the Drop Ship Lightning Experience feature you must manually add the fields indicated in the tables below to their corresponding field sets.
Key: * – Mandatory field; R – Read-only in all contexts.
|
Object |
Field Set |
|
Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase Order Line Item | AP Voucher Selection | * | Quantity Vouchered |
| * | Unit Cost | ||
| * | Pending Voucher | ||
| Sales Order Line Item | Create PO from Sales Order Lines | * | Supplier Site |
| R | Line Type | ||
| R |
Item Master > Item Number |
||
| R |
Purchase Order Line Item > System PO Line Number |
||
| Lines To Invoice | Quantity to Bill | ||
| R |
Item Master > Item Number |
Fields to be removed
The Drop Ship Lightning Experience feature requires that you manually remove the fields indicated below from their corresponding field sets:
Key: * – Mandatory field.
|
Object |
Field Set |
|
Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase Order Line Item | AP Voucher Selection | Item Being Procured | |
| Sales Order Line Item | Create PO from Sales Order Lines | Item Master | |
| Purchase Order Line Item | |||
| Lines To Invoice | * | Item Master |
Manually Removing Buttons from Page Layouts
The Drop Ship Lightning Experience feature requires that you manually remove the following buttons from your Sales Order page layouts:
- Create and Edit PO
- Review Invoice
To remove these buttons from your Sales Order layouts:
- From Setup, click Object Manager | Sales Order | Page Layouts.
- Click the required layout for the Sales Order object.
- Go to the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section.
- Select the button you want to remove and drag it back to the layout's palette.
- Click Save.
Custom Permissions
Ensure your users have the following custom permissions in order to have access to the actions provided by the custom components:
|
SCM Lightning Component |
Permissions for Lightning Component |
Component Actions |
Permissions for Component Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| salesOrderActionPanel |
Users must have either the Initiate Acquisitions custom permission or the Manage Invoices custom permission assigned to their profiles.
|
Create and Edit Purchase Orders | Initiate Acquisitions custom permission |
| Review Invoice | Manage Invoices custom permission | ||
| apVoucherActionPanel |
Manage AP Vouchers custom permission
|
Add Lines from Purchase Order Lines | Manage AP Vouchers custom permission |
| Add Accounting Line | Manage AP Vouchers custom permission |
Using Custom Lightning Record Pages
If you use custom Lightning Record Pages and do not want to activate the provided FinancialForce record pages via the Feature Console feature, you can add the SCM custom Lightning components listed below to your custom pages in order to implement the Drop Ship Lightning Experience functionality.
|
Lightning Record Page |
SCM Lightning Component |
Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Order | salesOrderActionPanel | Create and Edit Purchase Orders |
| Review Invoice | ||
| AP Voucher | apVoucherActionPanel | Add Lines from Purchase Order Lines |
| Add Accounting Line |
Additionally, ensure you add the Serial Numbers button to the AP Voucher Line Lightning Record Page to enable adding serial numbers to an AP voucher line for drop ship items.
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