What's the difference between receiving a regular supply order and a back-to-back supply order?

Receiving transactions against back-to-back supply orders process the same as regular supply orders. One exception is the reservations handling when creating receipts for supply orders that are received and put away to inventory at receiving time (direct routing).

Put away of a regular receipt and put away of a back-to-back receipt are similar. However, there is an exception in the processing of the reservation that was made against the supply order (purchase order or transfer order). In both cases, the reservation is moved from the supply order to the new on-hand inventory as part of the put away transaction process. The only difference is:

• For a regular receipt, the reservation is transferred to the new on-hand inventory at the subinventory and locator level.

• For a back-to-back receipt, the reservation is transferred to the new on-hand inventory at the organization level.