Use the Order Consolidating Queue to combine open sales orders for the same ship-to customer. Consolidating orders allows you to take advantage of order-handling efficiencies; such as picking, packaging, and billing everything at one time. It may also save the customer freight and handling charges.
This queue lets you quickly select an order to consolidate to, and one or more orders to consolidate from. You can drill down to preview the orders before consolidating them. This lets you ensure that the correct orders are selected.
Once consolidated, the from orders are automatically cancelled. The branch inventory commitments, freight amounts, cash payments, and line item comments on from orders automatically carry over to the consolidated order. Available discounts and taxes are recalculated on the consolidated order, and its shipping information is used.
When you open a consolidated order, the line items that were added to it have comments attached. These line item comments show the original order number and any purchase order number. For instance, each line item comment might include something like this: Consolidated from Order S1324157. PO# 0189.
Note: Within Sales Order Entry, you can also consolidate the current sales order with another order to create a separate, new order. Or, merge items from another order onto the current order.
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