Inventory tracking for direct deliveries
When goods are directly delivered from the supplier to the customer, your warehouse is bypassed. In this process, a purchase order is created for the original sales order.
See Direct delivery and Direct delivery sales orders for details.
Inventory tracking is applicable for direct deliveries based on the concept data, such as the Country of Origin concept.
If the Country of Origin concept is applicable for a direct delivery, the inventory tracking receipt is created when the purchase order is created. An inventory tracking receipt is linked to a purchase order line.
The inventory tracking unit and the inventory tracking consumption are created when the purchase receipt is created for the purchase order. This signifies that the goods have been delivered at the customer’s. Immediately upon creation, the status of the inventory tracking unit is set to Consumed.
An inventory tracking consumption is linked to a sales order line.
The receiving country, that is, the country of the ship-to business partner’s location, is the country for which the inventory tracking and Country of Origin settings are deployed.
If an inventory tracking unit is created for a direct delivery, the Direct Delivery check box is selected in the Inventory Tracking Units (tcitu1100m000) and Inventory Tracking Unit (tcitu1600m000) sessions.
For inventory tracking receipts linked to direct deliveries, the sold-to and the ship-to business partners are displayed. The ship-to business partner’s location is where the goods are received. The sold-to business partner is the customer who becomes the owner of the goods.
Direct deliveries have inventory tracking location and ownership levels that are different from those defined in the ITU parameter sessions. The inventory tracking location level and the inventory tracking ownership level is Business Partner.