Linking new Customer Order Line with Existing PO and PO Line

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have any experience or ideas on how to link a Order Line on a Customer Order to a existing Purchase Order.

Essentially what we have is Contracts with Suppliers. So we create one PO that will be left Open and will add a PO line to it (part of our internal processes). Each line will be associated a Customer Order. Our customer orders may have more than one item on it.

From my experience I can create a new purchase order for each line item by changing the line type on the customer order. this creates a planned purchase order in PPS170 and then in PPS200.

my question is - would it be possible to link a Customer Order Line to an existing line on an open PO?

any help would be greatly received.

kind regards,

Qasim

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Rene Bottern

You can link a specific PO Line in PPS201/E to a Customer Order Line manually if you like (Reference Order / Line + Type=3).

PPS200MI / UpdLine is available if you like to automate or use a script.

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Hi Rene,

Thanks for your reply, I had a look at this functionality - it is very close to what i am looking for. the only issue with this is that if you goods receipt the PO then the Customer Order still remains at a status of 22, I was hoping this would automatically be delivered. similiar to raising a PO from the customer Order Line.

kind regards,

Qas

Rene Bottern

lHi Qasim,

you're confusing me a bit, are you saying that you want a PO Receipt to automatically assume a shipment to the Customer??

Is this not a "real" Customer Order then, more of a "place holder" for you to be able to relieve Inventory and/or create and Invoice?

Legacy Contributor

Hi Rene,

My apologies. In a way yes, that is what we are trying to achieve. M3 does allow this when you create a New PO from a Customer Order Line where the Line type = 2. but this create a new PO each time. my issue is how do we link it to an existing PO that has already been defined.

You could see this as a place holder "Customer Order" its just a means of Invoicing the Customer. the Items are non-stock so they do not affect stock inventory.

kind regards,

Qasim

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