Automatically printing documents

If you routinely print documents from these functions, select Automatic Print to automatically print documents after each transaction is entered or changed:

• Sales Order Entry
• Purchase Order Entry
• Transfer Entry

The setting does not persist from session to session. You must select Automatic Print each time you sign in to Distribution SX.e. To discontinue automatic printing during a session, clear the check box.

If you automatically print sales order pick tickets, a pick ticket is printed for these orders if the promise date equals the current date:

• Stock Order (SO)
• Counter Sale (CS)
• Return Merchandise (RM)

When a future ship date is indicated, pick tickets are printed if the promised date on the order header is the current date.

Automatic pick tickets are affected the Additional Days for Calculating Requested Ship Date setting in SA Administrator Options-Documents-Sales Orders-Entry Settings and these values in Product Warehouse Description Setup-Other:

• End of Day Cutoff
• Saturday Shipment
• Sunday Shipment

Even if Automatic Print is selected, some documents still might not print under these conditions:

• Depending on how the printing options are set up, pick tickets do not print if an order’s shipped quantity and returned line items is zero.
• Counter Sale (CS) orders do not print automatically if you are forced to tender.
• If an order is maintained, a pick ticket reprints only if a line has been changed or added. If information such as terms or down payment is changed, the pick ticket does not automatically reprint. To prevent picked line items from being picked again, only new or changed line items are included on the reprinted pick ticket.
• Orders on hold do not print until they are approved.
• If a warehouse transfer is tied to a direct sales order that is on hold, the warehouse transfer does not print.
• If a purchase order is created for a direct line item in Sales Order Entry and the order is on hold, the purchase order does not print. If a tied sales order is not approved, you are prompted to confirm that you want the purchase order to print.
• Canceled purchase orders do not print automatically when they are canceled in Purchase Order Entry. You can print the canceled purchase order using the print on demand function.
  Note:  Automatic Print must also be selected if you use an @ stored report to auto print.

If you print sales and purchase orders on demand, you can select Use Where Appropriate to send applicable documents to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) trading partners. In Sales Order Entry, an acknowledgment or response to a request for quote can be transmitted to the customer. In Purchase Order Entry, the purchase order is transmitted to the vendor.

You can also select Use Where Appropriate to email the documents to the customer or vendor. The email address must be included in the Customer Setup, Customer Ship To Setup, Vendor Setup, and Vendor Ship From Setup records.