Creating and Processing Trade Sales Orders
This chapter tells you how to set up trade sales and create and process the trade sales order.
Overview of Trade SalesOutlines features of the trade sales module and explains when it should be used.
Setting Up Trade SalesOutlines tasks required to set up trade sales.
Processing the Trade Sales ShipmentIllustrates the trade sales order process and explains individual tasks related to it.
Correcting/Returning Trade Sales OrdersDescribes how to correct and return trade sales orders.
Deleting Trade Sales OrdersDescribes how to delete trade sales orders and explains how the system deals with deleted orders.
Overview of Trade Sales
To begin a trade sales agreement among a customer, trade sales suppliers, and you as the tier-one supplier, you must first activate the trade sales module; then, you can create the trade sales order. This chapter focuses on trade sales features, activating trade sales, creating and processing the trade sales order, and importing and exporting ASNs.
Creating and processing a trade sales order and importing/exporting ASNs constitute basic trade sales operations. That is, you can have a complete trade sales agreement based only on an existing trade sales order, the import of trade sales supplier ASNs through EDI, and the export of ASNs to the customer through EDI. Additional chapters in this guide describe other aspects of the trade sales process that further expand capabilities and add additional trade sales functionality.
For an overview of trade sales processing, see
Trade Sales.
Trade Sales Features
After you activate the optional Trade Sales module in Trade Sales Control (7.3.23), use trade sales to:
• Easily identify a customer scheduled order as a trade sales contract.
• Automatically create a supplier scheduled order for items listed on a customer scheduled order that you identified as a trade sales contract.
• Automatically create a matching trade sales supplier planning schedule when you import or create a trade sales customer planning schedule.
• Automatically create a matching trade sales supplier shipping schedule when you import or create a trade sales customer shipping schedule.
• Automatically create a matching supplier shipping or planning schedule when you reactivate an existing schedule of a customer trade sales order line.
• Automatically set the newly created schedule as the active release.
• Optionally, automatically queue and export newly created supplier planning and shipping schedules to trade sales suppliers.
• View or print system-created trade sales supplier schedules regardless of whether optional modules were activated.
• Automatically generate a PO shipper, PO shipper receipt, SO shipper, and SO shipper confirmation when you import a trade sales supplier ASN.
• Optionally, let the system create the SO shipper from the PO shipper receipt or the supplier’s original ASN.
• Optionally, automatically queue and export an ASN to the customer.