When creating a drop ship PO, one should only be able to create this for lines on a sales order that are marked as drop ship. Using the Auto Generate PO from SO works well, however one can manually crete a drop ship PO and link it to a sales order that has no drop ship lines. This is a major accounting problem. A Drop ship PO should only be attached to drop ship sales order lines. When someone changes this afterwards a warning should come up that says Po or SO is linked to another document so that the items stay intact and we don't have cost of sales duplicated and invenory going negative.
by: Avron K. | over a year ago | Sales & Distribution
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great idea! we've had to do too many invenory "issue" transactions to fix this issue. also the gross margin report is a mess with drop ship orders.
The key to the Drop Ship in IMO is the control over the cost field in SO Data Entry Lines.
What would be nice is a system that does the following for DS:
1.) Cost for the PO is controlled through the Sales Order Detail Line for the Item being DS. If the cost is updated on the PO or the Receipt of Invoice then it is updated back to the Sales Order Detail Line.
2.) Prevent the Sales Order From being Invoiced until the PO has been invoiced. (Keep the Horse in front of the Cart concept)
3.) DS Purchase Orders must be linked back to Sales Order DS Lines.
Using the above rules would provide clients with better visibility of their margins and make it easier to report. Also provide visibility in the IM module of those DS transactions like other IM transactions.