Direct Order purchase orders

A Direct Order (DO) purchase order is created automatically when a DO sales order is entered in Sales Order Entry. Because the order is shipped directly from your vendor to your customer, the products on the DO do not enter your inventory. You can only maintain a DO PO from Purchase Order Entry. The DO PO is already tied to the Sales Order number before you can add or change any items on the purchase order.

Before your vendor's invoice can be costed, the DO PO must be received. You can do this manually in Purchase Receipt of Inventory Entry or automatically in Vendor Invoice Center Entry or Vendor Entry Group Update/Reconcile Invoices Report.

Any addons included on the invoice are passed back to the tied sales order if Bill Direct PO Addons To Sales Order is selected in SA Administrator Options-Documents-Sales Orders-Back Orders. The type of addons that are passed back depend upon value in the Bill Direct PO Addons field in Customer Setup-Ordering-Addons. The value can be set to None, All, Freight, or Other.

The ship date of the direct purchase order updates the ship date on the tied sales order if one of these conditions is met:

• When you enter vendor invoices manually, you specify the ship date in the Ship Date for Tied Order field in Vendor Invoice Center Entry.
• When you receive vendor invoices electronically, the Ship Date for Tied Order field is updated with the TiedOEShipDate value from the Process SupplierInvoice BOD and the sxapiAPInvoiceImport call.

Authorization may be required for the operator depending on their security. If Do Not Allow Entry of Ties is selected in SA Operator Setup-Entry Options-OE/PO Entry Options, then the operator cannot assign a tie without authorization. Authorization is specified in SA Authorization Security Administration. If the operator does not have authority to grant ties, then the operator must get assistance from a supervisor, who can grant authority to continue.