As you may be aware, several countries and organizations are imposing trade sanctions. Tensoft has a globally distributed customer base and so a lot of them need the ability to systematically track the export restrictions on their parts or businesses. With the upcoming release of Tensoft DemandOps, we plan to add a new feature that allows users to tag certain parts, business, business addresses or countries as restricted for export.
The system will allow you to tag the sellable parts that are available for purchase by customers as restricted for an export. When setting up the Parts in DemandOps, whether it’s a new part or an existing part, you can set a flag “Is Export Restricted” along with the reason for restriction.
You can also restrict any business. This is another way of preventing any shipments from going out to that specific customer. You may have cases where a specific customer is not restricted, but a specific business address for that customer is restricted and so the system allows you to restrict it.
If a business is restricted, the system will highlight it when creating a sales order and you won’t be able to ship anything to that business. Similarly, if you have a part that is restricted, it will show as being restricted and you won’t be able to ship that part as well. It provides flexibility to track and manage orders and prevent them from going into SemiOps and inadvertently being shipped out from your inventory to those restricted locations.
Finally, you can set a restriction flag at the country level which will tag any businesses that are located in the designated country and the associated sales orders as being restricted.
You can have one or more combinations of these 4 entities – country, business, the business address and the part – to be flagged as restricted. You can override that export restriction manually within the sales order if needed but it will require you to specify a reason.
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