Received customer orders

Sales orders can be created through EDI or through BODs from external sources. Because the sales order includes many dependent objects, the creation and update process is complex and time consuming. High-volume inbound order data requires a faster insertion and processing of customer data into sales orders.

To streamline this process, the Sales Order Parameters (tdsls0100s400) session has been enhanced with the Received Customer Orders check box and a number group and series for these received customer orders.

If the received customer functionality is implemented, the Received Customer Orders (tdsls2600m100) session can be used to load customer orders from EDI or BOD, or to manually specify an order. This session verifies if an order is complete and if it can be processed to a sales order. In the case of issues, such as a missing customer order number or an invalid item, a message is logged in the Message Log. Received customer orders can be new orders or changed orders.

The Automatically Approve Sales Order check box has been added to the Sales Order Types (tdsls0594m000) session. If this check box is selected, and also the new Automatically Process Received Customer Orders check box is selected in the Sold-to Business Partner (tccom4110s000) session, a sales order that is created from a customer received order, from a BOD, or EDI is automatically approved. Next, the automatic steps linked to the sales order type are executed.