Understanding Sales Order Entry
When a customer wants to purchase items from your organization, you must record the items, quantities, prices, and any additional customer-specific information that is related to that sale. Using the Sales Order Entry programs (P4210 and P42101), you create sales orders to track all of the information that is related to each sale.
The sales order entry forms include required and optional fields. Depending on the complexity of the sale, you can determine which fields you complete. If you complete only the required fields, the system retrieves default customer, item, and preference information from a set of tables. The system also retrieves the base price information when you enter the item on a sales order. If necessary, you can override the default information on the sales order. When you override the default information, only the specific sales order reflects the overrides. The master tables are not changed.
The system retrieves default sales order information from these tables:
Address Book Master (F0101).
Customer Master by Line of Business (F03012).
Item Master (F4101).
Item Location (F41021).
Preference Master (F40070).
Alternate Tax Rate/Area Definition (F40081), if the alternate tax rate/area assignment functionality is enabled for the company.
The system also retrieves base price information for the item that is entered.