An internal order is a sales and purchase order combination when a goods are sold between companies of the same group.
The starting point for an intercompany order is to create and activate a purchase order from the receiving company to the supplying company. This action will automatically create an "under construction" sales order in the supplying company. Check and activate the sales order.
When the actual delivery occurs it is necessary to create a dispatch in the supplying company and a receipt in the receiving company.
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