Treating two separate Sales Orders as one Sales Order

[Former Member]

Dear All - My company is looking to use two different Sales Orders for a single material and batch combination in a Material to Order scenario. This is a pharma company creating a product which is unique per patient.

The first sales order will come from the Wholesaler and is strictly financial used for invoicing. The first sales order is the PO which is created in the wholesaler system and converted to a Sales Order in our EDI system. The wholesaler customer will create a sales order in the wholesaler system. Using MRP this sales will be used to create a Purchase Order. The purchase order though will not contain the actual ship to address of the customer rather the wholesaler ship to address. There will be hundreds of ship to locations for this product.

The second Sales Order will be used to create the process order and shipping to the write address. This information will come from an internal system at my company prior to the wholesaler customer creating a sales order in the wholesaler system. The customer must first register for each material, patient and batch combination.

I have some idea's how to manage this using enhancements and etc. I could not find anything standard which handles such as scenario as above.

Does anyone know of standard SAP functionality which would allow the creation of two Sales Orders and treat them as one Sales Order? I am aware of how to use one delivery for multiple Sales Order I do not know if it is possible with standard to have two sales orders treated as one.

Has anyone done something similar and if so can you share your approach?

Thanks,

Bob Berneck

[Former Member]

Hi Hidayath - Thanks for the reply and information. The VSO gets created first and then the CSO gets created.

Do you have any documentation on how the two sales order would link to together or on the Vendor Sales Order setup? I have not work with a Vendor Sales Order before or linking such Orders. I have search google and SCN and did not find any useful information yet.

Thanks in advance for your input and help.

Bob Berneck

[Former Member]

Hi Venu V K - Thanks for the reply. The business is asking for two separate Sales Order. One is coming from the Wholesaler and the other is internally generated. The business wants both Sales Order to act as a single Sales Order.

For example the business wants to post an invoice against the first Sales Order and does not want to create a delivery or PGI for the first Sales Order. On the second Sales Order the business wants to create a delivery and PGI it but do not want to invoice against it. The second Sales Order will match the physical shipping while as the first is used only for financials. They want the PGI on the second Sales Order to act as a trigger for Invoicing of the first Sales Order.

Any other questions please let me know.

Thanks,

Bob Berneck

[hasan_ahmed1]

Hi Bob,

Lets a example as below.

1. Configure sales order as vendor sales order- order related billing

2.Configure one more sales order as Linked sales order/company sales order- per requirement this SO will be processed till PGI. Right?

3. Vendor sales order and its invoice should also update in the document flow of company sales order.

Few clarifications:

1. Which order is going get create first in system, Is it VSO or CSO?

2. Is there any requirement on the reports that company want to track this two sales orders or reports have been already in place.

Thanks

Hidayath

[Former Member]

Hi Bob,

How about having one sales order with 2 different line items & 2 diff materials in it - One with Order --> Billing & other taking care of the logistics processing. The same can be managed with the help of the Item category

For one of our projects - we have followed the above process.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi Bob Berneck,

What do you mean by treating 2 Sales Order as One ?

Are you referring to have one subsequent transaction for these 2 Sales orders - say delivery creation for both the 2 Sales orders ?

Please share more information on what has to be done from a business point of view with these 2 Sales orders.

Regards