Question about what process others out there are using for drop ship higher with high numbers of orders.
Although we have adhoc, drop shipped in the past, a change has occurred that means we will need to drop ship large numbers of sales orders every day.
The sales orders are created in SOP with the sales order line marked as drop ship by econnect from various websites. Other sales orders are also entered by the tele-sales team and likewise the lines marked as drop ship.
Initially I thought that the back order quantity could be set on these orders, as it does not contribute to back order qty in inventory sites (IV00102) when the sales line is drop ship. The plan was then to use the PO Generator to pick up these orders and create the purchase orders for them at the end of the working day. Testing this it seems the PO generator is blind to the drop ship orders.
My move was using a custom sales navigation list that looks for drop ships with no POP-SOP link, then highlighting them all and using purchase as an action, only to find that navigation list builder didn't have an option to purchase as an action.
Sales Document Range Enquiry window has an purchase button, but no way I can see to load it with sales documents requiring purchase (drop ship status and not on a purchase order).
Our buyers want control and also to keep segregation of duties, together with efficiency, I don't really want to be generating the PO from sales documents individually.
So here I am asking the community if there is a way I've missed to achieve this before I embark on writing a bespoke PO generator or forcing my own list into the Sales Enquiry Restrictions window!
Tim.