Understanding Sales Update Report and Batches

Before you post journal entries created by the Sales Update program (R42800) to the general ledger, you can ensure the accuracy of the outbound inventory transactions by reviewing the journal entries.

The R42800 program groups transactions into different types of batches for posting to journals.

Invoice Batch (IB Batch)

The system creates the IB batch when it creates A/R entries. When you run the Sales Update report, the system automatically creates the default IB batch. When you run R42800 over orders that contain both internally owned shipment and other order detail lines, and no summarization option is turned on, the system saves other order detail line journal entries under the IB batch and internally owned shipment line journal entries under the Internally Owned Shipment G batch.

Internally Owned Shipment Batch (G Batch)

The system creates a new general ledger batch Internally Owned Shipment (type G) when you run the Sales Update report over orders consisting of internally owned shipment lines. Since the internally owned shipment lines are not part of the invoice, the system creates a new Internally Owned Shipment G batch.

To track movement of inventory from the inventory account to the consigned inventory account, you use the internally owned shipment G batch. You can also differentiate internally owned shipment order detail line journal entries using the Internally Owned Shipment G batch.