Blanket Purchase Orders: Purchases for Sale

You can use a blanket purchase order while processing a purchase for sale in order to purchase items that are not in stock and will be sold to a customer. On the Sales Orders (SO301000) form, you create a sales order, add a line with the item on the Details tab, select the Mark for PO check box for this line, and select Blanket for Normal or Blanket for Drop-Ship in the PO Source column, depending on the needed order type. Then on the Details tab, you link a blanket purchase order with the sales order by clicking PO Link on the table toolbar, and in the Purchasing Details dialog box, which opens, clicking the line with the needed blanket purchase order and clicking Save. After linking a sales order with a blanket purchase order you can generate a purchase order (of the Normal or Drop-Ship type) for the sales order by clicking Create Purchase Orders on the More menu and processing the purchase request on the Create Purchase Orders (PO505000) form.

Depending on the option selected in the PO Source column of a sales order line, in the Purchasing Details dialog box, the system makes available for selection the following purchase orders of the Blanket type:

• If Blanket for Normal is selected, the purchase orders of the Blanket type with the Open status.
• If Blanket for Drop-Ship is selected, the purchase orders of the Blanket type with the Open status in which the quantity of the purchase order line is greater than or equal to the quantity of the sales order line.

When you generate a child order for a blanket purchase order on the Create Purchase Orders (PO505000) form, the option in the PO Source column of the Sales Orders form in the related sales order line is changed from Blanket for Normal to Purchase to Order or from Blanket for Drop-Ship to Drop-Ship. Also, for the line of the sales order that is marked for drop shipping, the system inserts the reference number of the child order into the Drop-Ship PO Nbr. column. If you create a normal or drop-ship purchase order manually on the Purchase Orders (PO301000) form and link it to the blanket purchase order by using the Add Purchase Order Line dialog box on the same form, the values in the PO Source and Drop-Ship PO Nbr. columns do not change in the sales order lines.

For details about the purchases for sales process, see Purchases for Sale: General Information.