Ship To Addresses and Delivery Instructions
You generate an order for a specific branch/plant, business unit, project, or job within the company. In most instances, goods are shipped to the same branch/plant that requests the order. However, you might want to ship the goods to another location.You must specify the branch/plant, business unit, project, or job for which you are placing an order. When you enter a branch/plant, the system retrieves the ship-to address from Branch/Plant Constants, if the ship-to address exists in the address book. If you want to ship the order to a different shipping address, you can override the ship-to address number.
You can enter instructions for the delivery of an order. For example, you can specify that goods be delivered to a certain dock at the warehouse. You can have the system retrieve default delivery instructions that are set up for the ship-to address in the Supplier Master table (F0401).
(Release 9.2 Update) You can transfer an order from one branch/plant to another branch/plant. To transfer the order you must create a sales transfer order (ST). The system automatically creates a purchase transfer order (OT) for every sales transfer order (ST) that is created. When the goods are received the lot number is blank for every OT order if the Inventory Lot Creation field is deactivated in the Branch/Plant Constants for the receiving branch/plant. All the created OT orders can be viewed in the Purchase Order Detail File (F4311) table. You can validate the created ST order using the Shipment Confirmation program (P4205). The OT order is automatically validated when the ST order is validated by the in-transit accounting process.