Example of external material deliveryIn case of external material delivery, LN carries out invoicing for transactions within a single logistic company that involve entities that are linked to different enterprise units. Example A sales office and a warehouse of a single logistic company are linked to different enterprise units. The sales-office's enterprise unit is linked to financial company 100 and the warehouse's enterprise unit is linked to financial company 200. A sales order arrives from an external business partner to the sales office. The sales office initiates a warehouse order to ship the goods from the plant to the business partner. The warehouse order contains this information:
Payments As the enterprise unit of the ship-from warehouse differs from the enterprise unit of the invoice-to business partner on the warehouse order, LN generates triangular payments in Financials. Invoice The sales order/receipt activates the sales office to create an invoice to the invoice-to business partner. Internally, the warehouse's financial company expects a payment for the goods. The warehouse order issue to the ship-to business partner results in:
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