Vendor Technical Documentation
Not every packaging is manufactured in-house. If your company sources a packaging or packaging component from a vendor, the material composition is often only available as the vendor's own declaration. For this case, you record a vendor technical documentation: a technical documentation that you fill in by hand from the vendor's declaration instead of calculating it from a production BOM.
How to create a vendor technical documentation
- Choose the
icon, enter Items, and then choose the related link. - Open the required item or item variant.
- On the ribbon, choose the PPWR action group and then Create Technical Documentation.... The Create PPWR Technical Documentation wizard opens.
- Set the Documentation Source field to Vendor Declaration. For items with the Replenishment System set to Purchase, this source is already preselected.
- In the Vendor No. field, select the vendor that supplies the packaging.
- Optionally, upload the vendor's original declaration directly in the wizard: choose Upload PDF Document and select the PDF file. The uploaded document is shown in the Uploaded PDF field and can be removed again with Remove PDF Document.
- Choose Finish. acadon PPWR creates an empty documentation and opens the Vendor PPWR Technical Documentation page for editing. A PDF uploaded in the wizard is already stored there.
Note
A vendor technical documentation can be edited as long as its status is New or Under Development. After it has been certified, it is read-only; further changes result in a new version.
The Vendor PPWR Technical Documentation page
General FastTab
On the General FastTab you enter the description and the overall details Substance Restriction, Recyclability and Risk Assessment as confirmed by the vendor. The Vendor No. and the source (item or item variant) are taken over from the creation.
Vendor Document FastTab
On this FastTab you record the reference to the vendor's original declaration:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Vendor Document No. | Specifies the document number that the vendor assigned to their own PPWR declaration. |
| Vendor Document Version | Specifies the version or revision of the vendor's declaration. |
| Vendor Document Date | Specifies the date of the vendor's PPWR declaration. |
| Responsible Person | Specifies the name and function of the person responsible at the vendor. |
Lines
On the Lines FastTab you enter the components of the packaging by hand. For each line you enter the PPWR Material, Description, Unit of Measure Code, Quantity per, Net Weight and the Substance Restriction, Recyclability and Risk Assessment details. You add a new line by pressing Enter in the last line.
Manage the vendor document PDF
You store the vendor's original declaration as a PDF — either already in the wizard during creation or at any time later directly on the documentation:
- Choose the Upload PDF Document action and select the PDF file of the declaration.
- The uploaded PDF is shown directly in the Vendor Document PDF FactBox — without you having to download the file.
- Use the Remove PDF Document action to delete an uploaded PDF again.
Tip
The FactBox on the right shows the stored PDF in a built-in preview. This lets you check the recorded details against the vendor's original declaration at any time.
Further use
A vendor technical documentation also provides a material statistic and can be used for the Packaging Component Compliance Declaration. For more information, see Declarations of Conformity.
On the Vendor Card, use the PPWR > Open Technical Documentation action to show all technical documentations supplied by a vendor.