How to: Create Sales Orders for Drop Shipments

A drop shipment is the shipment of an item or a consignment of items from one of your vendors directly to one of your customers.

To create a drop shipment, you must create and fill in a sales order from the purchase order in question.

To create a sales orders for drop shipment

Open the purchase order that you want to make a drop shipment from.
On the Actions tab, in the General group, choose Sales Order.
Fill in the No. field.
In the Sell-to Customer No. field, choose the drop-down arrow to see the Customer List window, and then choose the customer that is to receive the item.
On the first sales line, in the Type field, choose the drop-down arrow, and then choose Item.
In the No. field, choose the drop-down arrow to see the Item List window, and then choose the item to be sold.
On the sales line, in the Purchasing Code field, choose the AssistButton to see the Purchasing Codes window. Select a purchasing code that has a check mark in the Drop Shipment field and choose the OK button.
Fill in the remainder of the information to complete the sales order.