Drop Ship Cycle
Drop Ship Cycle
The below are the steps involved in the Drop Ship Cycle:
Before you create an order, you have to perform some setups in order to drop ship, which are listed in the below mentioned article Drop Ship Setups:
3. Check Status
5. Check Status
Click the Shipping tab and enter Item Number , Quantity and Receiving Organization
If order is booked successfully then a confirmation message will be displayed as shown in the below picture.
Select Additional Line Information from the List of values and click OK
At this stage we do not have any purchase orders created related to this drop ship order.
Go back to Line Items and select the line. Right click on it and select Progress Order option as shown below.
Click OK.
Make a note that we still do not have Purchase Order created for this drop ship order.
Click on Parameters and enter the sales order number that we created above. By doing this concurrent request will just process this particular order instead of releasing all pending drop ship order requests.
Click Submit
Multiple Distributions: No
Click OK.
Wait until two concurrent requests Requisition Import and Create Releases are completed.
Purchase order is in Approved status because we initiated the approval process by setting the parameter Initiate Approval Process after ReqImport to yes in the above concurrent request.
If you have EDI / e-commerce gateway setup to drop the purchase order information to supplier, it should trigger now.
Supplier ships the parts to customer and will send us back the confirmation.
Select the Receiving Organization that is selected on shipping tab of line items form.
Click the purchase order number which is found on the additional line information form or the sales order that is created.
Click find.
The Receipt form should open with the item information as shown below.
Check mark the Left checkbox and if the item is Lot or Serial controlled then click on Lot Serial button.
Enter the lot number. In my case the item being used is lot controlled.
Click done.
Go back to Order Management and check the line status on the order form.
Now the line is shipped. To close the line run the workflow background process concurrent program.
Once the workflow background process completed the line status should change from shipped to closed.