Understanding Recurring Sales Orders

You streamline order entry by creating recurring orders using the Recurring Order Entry form. By creating recurring orders, you avoid manually reentering orders that are always the same. You can have the system automatically reenter an order on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis.

You can define the frequency that the system uses to process orders in this way:

• If you specify a daily frequency (D), you can indicate which day of the week the system should process the order.

• If you specify a weekly (W) or monthly (M) frequency, the system calculates the future dates to process orders based on the next order date that you enter.

After you enter a recurring sales order, you must process the order through the Recurring Orders Edit and Creation program (R40211Z). The system edits the information that you enter and creates orders on the designated date. To ensure the integrity of the data, the system creates sales orders for recurring orders only after the editing process is complete.

Any of the orders that contain errors remain in the batch receiver tables as unprocessed. You must correct this information and then run the R40211Z program again.