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sales order and purchase order processing

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Hello,

I was wondering how would an individual in the sales department know that a current sales order has had a purchase order created already when they check the status of an order?

Also, what is the difference between posting and releasing a sales order in NAV? 

Thanks.

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    Mohana Yadav Profile Picture
    60,226 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    You can create PO in 2 days using Drop shipments

    1 Directly and 2. Indirectly

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh173615(v=nav.90).aspx

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh172860(v=nav.90).aspx

    In direct way you can enter vendor no. directly as in 1st link

    in indirect way from requisition worksheet, vendor no. is filled from Item card otherwise we need to fill manually.

    there is a field in item card called "Vendor No."

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    47,688 on at
    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    William,

    Since you have to enter the vendor no. before you enter the line item, and what you requested is not possible in standard NAV.

    What you can have to do is a customization which i recently did for a client on the release of the sales order based on the item and  vendor no. it automatically creates a PO for that vendor with that item.  

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    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    After the sales order has been created when you are creating the purchasing order for the drop ship? I.E. I created a sales order that would be drop shipped to the customer. When the purchasing agent goes to create the purchase order for sales order, how do I get the vendors to automatically populate when the purchaser creates that PO for the sales item?

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    47,688 on at
    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    When do you want to update that ?

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    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    Thank you!

    is it possible in a purchase order to have the vendor number automatically updated on the purchase order based on the item being sold in the sales order?

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    47,688 on at
    RE: sales order and purchase order processing

    William,

    The release and posting i explained in the earlier post applies to the sales order too.

    Regarding how sales dept know that a purchase order created, are you referring to drop ship order ?

    If so they can go to sales order and from the line -> Order -> Drop Shipment then if you see a PO,then it means PO is created, there is no straight way to check by looking at the status of the SO if the PO is created but you can customize and add another status field or something to show PO exist flowfield which will look at Purchase Line for that sales order.

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