Within the Vendor card & Item card there is a field Manufacturer Warranty Duration available.
Automatic filling
The Manufacturer Warranty Duration in the Item is stated when the Vendor No. is stated. Automatically filled with value from the associated Vendor.
In addition, the field is filled using the value from the Vendor when a corresponding Sales Order Line is created.
Functionality in the sales order
If a Item is inserted within a Sales Line, the new field Manufacturer Warranty Duration is automatically prefilled here too. In the Sales Line, the field Manufacturer Warranty Duration cannot be edited.
If a Service Item is created from the original Item, the standard fields Warranty Ending (Parts) & Warranty Ending (Labor) are calculated based on the Manufacturer Warranty Period field .
If a Service Item Group is assigned in advance to an Item in which the Create Service Item field has been set, an associated Service Item is automatically created when the sales order is posted.
In the same process, the previously described standard fields Warranty Ending (Parts) & Warranty Ending (Labor), in the Service Item, are automatically calculated.
