Understanding Order Line Types

When you enter detail information for a sales order, you enter the quantity, price, and cost for each item or service. You can also enter a credit item, a nonstock item, and text information in the same sales order.

Each entry is a line. A line is the information for an item or service that you are ordering as it pertains to the order. The system processes each line based on a line type.

A line type is a code that the system uses to process each detail line that you enter for a specific order type. For example, you can specify line type S for stock items. The system determines whether it should increase or decrease the quantity of the item in inventory. You can specify line type F for freight charges. The system determines from the definition of the line type that this item is not an inventory item.

You can specify how the system uses line types in the general ledger and within JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management. For example, when you purchase or sell an inventory item, you can assign a line type for stock items. The system records the transaction according to the information that you specified for the line type. In this case, the system reflects the cost or price of the item in the general ledger. The transaction line also affects item availability in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management.

The line types that you define are applicable throughout distribution systems. For example, the system processes line types in the same way for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management as it processes line types for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Procurement.