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Supply chain | Supply Chain Management, Commerce
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Generate automatic number sequences for sales and purchase order through data entity import

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I am trying to import bulk sales and purchase orders. I have a number sequence set up for both of them as below:
When I try to import new sales orders, I am getting errors as below:
How can I generate the sales order numbers automatically?
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  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    239,451 Most Valuable Professional on at
    You haven't told us whether you've configured sales ID as auto-generated in DMF source mapping. Please check that.
  • Imran Mustafa001 Profile Picture
    124 on at

    Steps to fix the issue
    Open your Excel or CSV template that you are using for the data import.
    Look for the fields where you mapped Sales order number or Purchase order number.
    Remove these mappings completely leave these fields blank or unmapped.
    Save your updated file.
    Go back to the data management workspace in D365.
    Re-validate the entity to make sure there are no mapping errors.
    Run the import again.
    After this, the system will automatically generate the sales and purchase order numbers using the number sequences.

  • SJ-16091251-0 Profile Picture
    343 on at
    @Martin Dráb @CU05071437-0- I did set it as Auto generated.
    Have kept the sales order number field blank in excel that I am importing.
    Am I missing out on something?
  • SJ-16091251-0 Profile Picture
    343 on at
    @Martin Dráb / @CU05071437-0 - When I generate using the methods suggested above, the data is getting created as below which is not a per my number sequence. Do I need to define a number sequence anywhere:
  • Imran Mustafa001 Profile Picture
    124 on at
    You can modify the sequence number to align with your predefined number sequence in the setup.
  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    239,451 Most Valuable Professional on at
    According to code in SalesOrderHeaderV4Entity.initValue(), it uses the number sequence defined for SalesId EDT (in Accounts receivable parameters). If it's not the case for you, I don't know why.
  • SJ-16091251-0 Profile Picture
    343 on at
    @Imran Mustafa001 - Thanks for your reply. Where do you suggest to change the number sequence? 
  • SJ-16091251-0 Profile Picture
    343 on at
    @Martin Dráb - I have that setup as well. Wondering why it is still now working. Can it be because I have set it as continuous?
  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    304,711 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi,
     
    You can check if there are records in the status list for the number sequence. If so, then this can be indeed related to having the continuous option enabled. Try to disable the continuous setting.
  • Sagar121 Profile Picture
    1,190 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Is normal SO creation is taking correct number sequence?

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