Creating Purchase Orders for Drop Shipments Indirectly

When you create a drop shipment, you must create a purchase order that links to a sales order. The purchase order can be created directly or indirectly.

To Create Purchase Orders for Drop Shipments Indirectly:

  1. Open the Req. Worksheet window.

  2. Click Functions, Drop Shipment, Get Sales Orders. The Get Sales Orders window appears.

    You can set a filter to select specific sales lines for the batch job to retrieve. If you do not set a filter, the batch job retrieves all sales lines that have a Drop Shipment purchasing code.

    Click OK to run the batch job. The newly created purchase order proposal lines appear in the requisition worksheet. Note that the Action Message field contains the option New and that the Accept Action Message field contains a check mark.

  3. In the Req. Worksheet window, click Functions, Carry Out Action Message. The Carry Out Action Msg. - Req. window appears, click OK. A message appears telling you that the purchase order(s) has been created. Click OK.

Note that if item tracking was assigned on the corresponding sales order, the Get Sales Order function will also copy the item tracking lines to the newly-created purchase order. You can view them under Line, Item Tracking Lines.

You cannot post a drop shipment order that has item tracking unless item tracking is synchronized - serial numbers and lot numbers must be the same - between the two related orders.

Related Topics

Creating Drop Shipments

Creating Purchase Orders for Drop Shipments Directly

Creating Sales Orders for Drop Shipments

Get Sales Orders Batch Job


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