Sales Order Maintenance

To create an order you must first assign a number by clicking on New.

An order is composed of one or more order lines. This page lets you enter the Sales Order heading. The order lines are entered in a second page.

Fields

Order Id:

Obligatory field.
If the number exists, the order heading is displayed.

Customer #:

Obligatory field.
If the code exists, the Customer name is displayed.

Order type:

This dropdown list contains three options:
Normal: a normal order is created.
 Blanket: a blanket order is created. (see explanation below)
 Project: an order that has to be managed by project is created.

Order date:

Obligatory field (the current date is proposed by default).

 

Delivery date:

Obligatory field. This date is put in the delivery dates of the order lines (which can be then modified).

 For a blanket order, it is the contract end date.

Priority:

 Optional field. You can enter a priority index, three digits long.

Item #:

 This field is only visible for blanket orders. A blanket order can only contain a single item. This item code is reported in the orders lines and cannot be modified.

Customer order #:

  On a purely informative basis, you can enter the order number of the customer.

This field is used in the EDI procedures (see EDI chapter).  The customer order number of the order received by EDI is recorded here. It will be used to inform the customer on the shipments..

Distribution center:

 Distribution center from which the order is delivered.  Appears only if the distribution is managed.  Filled by default with the DC saved on the customer record.

Buttons

Beside standard buttons, this page contains the following buttons:

Approve

Provokes the order approval (an approved order cannot be modified nor deleted).

 

Duplicate

Duplicates an existing order (no matter its current status). Clearly, the customer code and the order/delivery dates can be modified. The duplication process is aborted by clicking on the Cancel button.

Lines

This opens the Sales Order Line Maintenance page.

 

Transactions

Posts all the shipping transactions on the order.

 

Prepare

Calls the Sales Order Preparation function.