Understanding Order Activity Rules

To advance an outbound inventory order through the order process, you must create order activity rules. The system uses order activity rules to determine the sequence of steps for processing outbound inventory order information.

The system processes an outbound inventory order line based on the order activity rules that you set up for the order type and line type combination. The following table illustrates examples of order activity rules you could set up for outbound inventory orders:

Internally Owned Shipment Orders	Internally Owned Billing Orders	Customer Owned VMI Orders
Enter internally owned shipment order Print Pick Slip Confirm shipment Print Invoice (optional) Acknowledge order Update customer sales	Enter internally owned billing order Confirm shipment (optional) Print Invoice Update customer sales	Enter customer owned VMI order Print Pick Slip Confirm shipment Print Invoice Acknowledge order Update customer sales

For example, you could set up the order activity rules for internally owned shipment line types in internally owned shipment orders as:

1. Enter internally owned shipment order

2. Print Pick Slip

3. Confirm Shipment

4. Print Invoices

5. Update Sales

You must assign a status code for every step in the outbound inventory order process. A status code is a number that the system uses to identify the current status of an order line. You must also identify next status codes that determine the next step to which the system advances the order. You must arrange status codes in ascending numeric order for the system to establish the sequence of steps.

Using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Outbound Inventory Management order activity rules, you can:

• Locate the status of an outbound inventory order.

• Select orders for batch processing.

• Prepare orders based on the order statuses.