Sales - Order Processing - sales orders - back-to-back processing

Back-to-Back processing :
Here the following information is maintained (see image right).

		Also known as Direct, Door-to-Door, or Drop Shipments, a Back to Back refers to the direct and absolute correlation between a PO Shipment or series of shipments, with a corresponding SO Shipment or series of SO Shipments. In other words, a Back-to-Back is the direct match between an SO and PO resulting in a transfer of goods from Vendor to Customer without any warehousing.

		It is important to note that Back to Back is not a “status” associated with either a Sales Order or a Purchase Order, but instead a *Sales Order Type* meaning that as a Back-to-Back Sales Order follows the flow of all other Sales Orders (Issued -> Match -> Release -> Ship) it does so in more “automated” fashion. Generally, if a Sales Order, or any shipment within the SO is back-to-back, that Sales Order (shipment) is automatically *Final Matched (Link)* when the Venture that that SO is back to back with receives packing information within VIS. This depends only on the confirmation of the user that the back-to-back is still valid at the time the Venture packing information is entered.



Select PO and Match with an SO					This process allows the user to first identify a Purchase Order, Line or Shipment, which they would like to associate or disassociate with a Sales Order, Line or Shipment

Select SO and Match with a PO					This process allows the user to first identify a Sales Order, Line or Shipment, which they would like to associate or disassociate with a Purchase Order, Line or Shipment.

View Current Back to Back Orders					Clicking the View Current Back to Back Orders radio button will give the user the option to view any past or present back-to-back orders. This is provided as a quick reference tool, when a user needs to know all the back to back orders outstanding for a customer, or as another quick report with the system to gather information about current Back-to-Backs. Using standard filtering criteria for viewing (Select a Product, Vendor, Customer, Specific PO or SO Shipment, or an ETD/ETA date range). After a successful filter, the user is given a list of all Back-to-Backs, which meet the filtering requirements. From that list the can sort any of the fields alphabetically by clicking the header name link for that field.

Back-to-Back processing :