Understanding Copying Sales Orders

Frequently, a customer might order the same or similar items and quantities on a repeated basis. To avoid having to reenter all of the details each time the customer places a similar order, you can streamline sales order entry by copying both header and detail information and adding the information to a new sales order. Or to send the same order to another ship-to address or invoice another sold-to address, you can copy only the detail information and change the ship-to or sold-to information.

Depending on how you set the processing options, this information can differ between the original and the duplicate sales order:

• Document type

• Beginning status code

The order number for the duplicate sales order is always different from the original order.

You can copy item information to sales orders from any version of the P4210 program. For example, you can set up the duplication processing options for the Blanket Order version so that when you copy order and line information from a blanket order, the system creates a new sales order.