Understanding Blanket Orders

You can create sales orders for customers with blanket orders. You use the Sales Blanket Order Release program (P420111) to manually deduct item quantities from a blanket order. The system creates a sales order for the quantity that you specify.

The system consolidates order lines based on sold to, branch/plant, and currency code information. The order numbers that a user enters can be consolidated in the same way as the system-generated sales orders. For example, if you select multiple records to release and enter a new order number for the first record only, the system consolidates the orders.

If you are using the Customer Self Service version of the Sales Blanket Order Release program in the Customer Relationship Management system, you can partially release quantities from multiple blanket orders and from multiple lines on blanket orders provided that you have set the appropriate processing options. When the system creates the sales orders, you can review each sales order number that results. You can also cancel a single line that has been released (as opposed to having to cancel all of the lines that have been released).