Understanding Related Addresses

When you create a sales order, you must specify the address to which you send the invoice (sold-to address) and the address to which you send the shipment (ship-to address). These two addresses can be different.

You can simplify the process of entering multiple addresses for a sales order by defining default addresses for each customer. For a given ship-to address, you can define a related sold-to address. For a sold-to address, you can define a related ship-to address. When you enter either address in a sales order, the system automatically populates the other.

You can also designate other related addresses or a parent address for a customer. For example, a customer can have a parent address to which you send all invoices or at which level you can optionally do credit limit checking, and multiple subsidiary addresses to which you send shipments.

The Address Book Master table (F0101) enables you to maintain information about all the companies and people with whom you do business. For each customer, you define each of these related addresses using the Address Book Revisions program (P01012):

• Ship-To

• Sold-To

• Parent

Note: Sold-to and bill-to are interchangeable in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management system, and both refer to the customer address to which the invoice is sent.

A related address must have an assigned number from the address book before it can be included on the Address Book Revision form. If no related addresses exist, these fields contain the same address book number that is assigned to the customer.