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Creating a Shipping Type Sales Order

Shipping Type Sales for Externally Owned Inventory

Updated over a month ago

For Customers who are Owners of the Inventory, you can mark a sales order as an Order Type of Shipping. This type of sale is not sent to accounting when confirmed and can be confirmed without a price set for the allocated items.

Shipping type sales order setup

  • In Master Data/Owners, all Owners for which you will be creating Shipping Orders should be setup. .

  • An Order number series for Shipping should be created in Configuration/Orders/Number Series.

  • The Configuration option - Configuration/Orders/Setup - Show Owner on PO and SO in P & S - must be set to ON in order for this Order Type to be available.


Creating a Shipping Type sales order

  1. Create a new Sales Order for the Owner and choose a Type of Shipping in the Sales Order creation pop-up.

  2. Assign the Owner on the General tab of the Order.

  3. Allocate the inventory that is marked as belonging to the designated Owner.

  4. You need not but can add a price to the sales order.

  5. When the order is confirmed, it will be available in the sales order list but it will not be invoiced and sent to accounting.


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