Multi Company – Internal Orders #
An internal order is a sales and purchase order combination when a goods are sold between companies of the same group.
Important: internal orders are not used between business unit or between stock locations. These are handled by the Material Transfer screen.
Back to back orders: #
- If the Deliver From Address of a sales order line is in another group company (i.e. it is marked as a stock location in a business unit that is in a different company than the theme of the sales order), the line must also be marked as a Back to back purchase (which automatically creates a PO to the other group company), otherwise order activation is blocked
- Back-to-back orders of manufactured items can be created to other group companies, but not to external suppliers
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1. Back to back No |
2. Back to back Yes |
A. Deliver from location inside same company |
Ok (Normal sale from own stock) |
Not Ok (Can not make an internal order from your own company) |
B. Deliver from location inside a different company |
Not ok (Cannot sell from another group co without making a PO there) |
Ok (Triggers a new PO, which then will trigger the internal SO) |
C. Deliver from external supplier |
Not ok (Must make a PO to the supplier) |
OK (Traditional back to back order) |
Dates are copied across internal orders: #
– SO1 Required date -> PO1 Required date -> SO2 Required date
– SO1 Promise date -> PO1 Dispatch date -> SO2 Promise date
SO1: Sales order from first group company to external customer (back-to-back order with deliver from in another group company)
PO1: Internal purchase order created automatically from SO1, from first group company to second group company
SO2: Sales order (in second group company) created automatically from PO1, where customer is the first group company, but deliver to location is the external customer