Intercompany trade order numbering

The application creates an intercompany trade order for each business object line of an originating business object. Intercompany trade order numbering is based on standard intercompany trade order numbering or user defined order series.

Standard order numbering

Standard order numbering is used if intercompany trade order series are not defined. If standard order numbering is used, the order numbers of the intercompany trade orders linked to the same originating business object are identical.

For example, if the originating business object is a sales order and the sales order has three order lines, three intercompany trade orders are created and the order numbers of the intercompany trade orders are identical. The Position Number field is added to make the intercompany trade order unique:

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Intercompany trade order series

To provide more insight into the origin of intercompany trade orders, you can define order series for intercompany trade orders. To each intercompany trade order series, you can add these attributes:

  • User
  • Scenario
  • From Enterprise Unit
  • To Enterprise Unit

If any of these attributes of an intercompany trade order series match the attributes of an intercompany trade order, the number of the intercompany trade order is based on this series.

For intercompany trade orders whose attributes do not match the attributes defined for an intercompany trade order series, standard order numbering is used.

You can specify series for intercompany trade orders in the Intercompany Trade Order Series (tcitr0110m000) session.

Example

Buy-from Enterprise unit 4 is added as a selection criterion to intercompany trade order series 001EU4.

In originating business object lines 10 and 20, deliveries are made from a warehouse belonging to enterprise unit 1. Therefore, intercompany trade order series 001EU4 is not applicable. The order numbers of the intercompany trade orders created from these originating business object lines are identical according to the standard order numbering. The position numbers /1 and /2 help distinguish the intercompany trade orders.

In line 30, the delivery is made from a warehouse that belongs to enterprise unit 4. Therefore, intercompany trade order series 001EU4 is used to create intercompany trade order EU455638/1:

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For each delivery that is made for an originating business object, a transaction line is created. The Position Number field is added to make the transaction line ID unique.

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