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purchase sales order same number

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Has anyone tried to use the same Sales Order (SO) and Purchase Order (PO) to tie those 2 documents together.

BACKGROUND: This store uses a facility to warehouse and deliver their products. The facility is not automated so much

of the communication is emailed, couriered or faxed to them. When products arrive, the warehouse facility

has copies of the purchase orders so they can allocate a location for each item durijng receiving and report

that information to the store.  From a historical perspective, the store has used a single SO/PO document number

systemm which works because each product order was on a single document. For example, if you bought 2 products,

each one would be on a separate SO/PO. With BC, they are now on the same sales order.  

All thoughts are welcome.

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    Teddy Herryanto (That NAV Guy) Profile Picture
    14,300 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Theoretically, you can. There is no technical reason why you can't do this because sales and purchase are on different table.

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    MahGah Profile Picture
    15,583 on at

    Hi

    I worked with the company that they had a same process. For a while this was manual process. They set PO No. Series to manual and they entered the SO number as a PO number. Then warehouse send notification when PO arrived.

    Later they had a customization in place that when you wanted to create PO it asked if you wanted to create base on SO and then NAV used SO# as PO#. Also, they had a system in place (through Job Queue) then NAV was checking for PO and if PO received it printed Pick Ticket for SO and sent notification. 

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    98,421 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Sorry, this may not have much to do with the problem.

    I once did a customization for a client.
    The customer requires SO and PO to be completely synchronized. Using get SO when creating a PO is somewhat similar to Drop Shipment and Special Order.

    When creating a PO, write the PO information into the SO, such as the order number, line number, etc., and there are also SO information in the PO. When the quantity or any details of SO or PO is modified, it must be synchronized to the other one.
    Of course this is a little bit complicated.

    Hope this will help.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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