Processing Sales Orders

You enter a sales order when a customer requests to purchase product from the company. You enter the full container on the sales order as the item that is sold to the customer. If the customer is returning empty containers at the same time as taking delivery of full ones, you also enter a credit for the number of empty containers on the sales order.

You record the shipping of items to confirm the reduction in inventory or to confirm the return of empty or full, undelivered containers to inventory. You perform this additional task in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management system. When you perform a load confirmation using the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system, the system then reduces the inventory of full containers.

You must enter and confirm a credit order to record empty containers that the customers return. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management system processes these credit orders and increases the number of empty containers in the Item Ledger File table.

Container management interacts with the other systems to extract container transaction information and maintain it in tables that are specific to container management.