Drop Shipment Field, Sales Line Table
Specifies whether your vendor to ship the items on the line directly to your customer.
You use a drop shipment when an item or group of items is shipped directly from your vendor to your customer and is therefore not registered in inventory.
There are two steps to setting up a drop shipment:
First place a check mark in the field to indicate that the item on the sales order is a drop shipment.
Then create a purchase order to order the corresponding items from your vendor. You can create the order directly from the sales order or indirectly from the Requisition Worksheet.
When you set up the purchase order, use the function Drop Shipment, Get Sales Order to link to the relevant sales order. The sales order lines will be copied to the newly-created purchase order.
Note that if item tracking was assigned on the corresponding sales order, the Get Sales Order function will also copy the item tracking lines to the newly-created purchase order. You can view them from the Lines FastTab by clicking Actions, pointing to Line, and then clicking Item Tracking Lines.
You cannot invoice the purchase order before the sales order is invoiced.
You cannot post a drop shipment order that has item tracking unless item tracking is synchronized - serial numbers and lot numbers must be the same - between the two orders.
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Parent Tables
| Table | Location |
|---|---|
| Purchase Order No. Field, Sales Line Table | Sales and Receivables |
| Sales Line Table | Sales and Receivables |