Enter and Validate Sales Orders

Depending on the nature of the goods to be sold or the work flow that is agreed upon with the customer, sales may begin with a sales quote or a blanket sales order, and in that case it will always be processed in a sales order. Apart from full integration to customer management features, the sales order document supports a wide range of supply chain functionality. Sales must be entered and validated in the sales orders document if the nature of the product or the logistical setup require separate physical handling or internal order fulfillment. If the sales process does not require that the physical transaction be recorded separately, then a sale may be entered directly in a sales invoice only or in a G/L journal.

Other order entry features include quick sales line creation from standard sales codes, order promising functionality, approval workflow, order promising functionality, and insight to customer and item statistics.

The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.

To	See
Create a sales order manually with no prior quote or blanket order.	How to: Create Sales Orders Manually
Learn about using the different customer address types: Sell-To, Bill-To, and Ship-To.	Customer Addresses
Sell goods without having to post the shipment separately from the sales invoice.	How to: Create Sales Invoices
Create a sales order by converting a blanket sales order to one or more separate sales orders.	How to: Convert Blanket Sales Orders to Sales Orders
Copy document lines from other sales documents.	Copy Sales Document
Create recurring sales order or invoice lines quickly by using standard customer sales codes.	How to: Insert Standard Purchase Lines on Documents
Calculate the earliest possible date that an item is available for shipment in order to promise exact delivery dates to customers.	How to: Calculate Order Promising Dates
Insert additional text relating to the item or order in a separate sales order line, such as "Thank you for your order".	How to: Insert Extended Text in Service Orders
Select and apply a different sales line discount than the discount applied by the system according to the best price principle.	How to: Get Sales Line Discounts
Select and apply a different sales line price than the price applied by the system according to the best price principle.	How to: Get Sales Prices
Calculate the recorded customer invoice discount on a sales line when the item and quantity is entered.	Calculating Invoice Discounts on Sales
Create a sales document for the usage of resources recorded as time spent on, for example, a job.	How to: Use Resource Prices in Sales Transactions
Reserve item from inventory or inbound orders to be used on sales order lines when they are due for shipping.	How to: Reserve Items for Sales Lines
Reserve items with serial/lot numbers by making a specific or non-specific reservation.	Reserving Item-Tracked Items
Fulfill a customers request to buy from a specific lot by specifying this lot on the sales order and requiring the warehouse worker to pick from this lot.	About Picking Serial and Lot Numbers
Track from the sales order to any purchase order or production orders that is automatically reserved by the planning system to cover the sales demand.	Order Tracking
View information relating to a sales document, such as comments, vendor details, and posted entries.	How to: View Additional Information About Sales Orders
Print an order confirmation document to be sent to the customer.	Order Confirmation

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