Enterprise Material Transfer (EMT) lets you translate sales orders into purchase orders automatically and transmit those purchase orders to secondary business units (SBU) electronically using EDI eCommerce. You can use EMT with the Customer Consignment Inventory module regardless of whether items are shipped directly by the SBU or received at your site for shipment.

All of the invoicing is managed by the site creating the original sales order—known in EMT as the primary business unit (PBU). When the PBU imports an advance ship notice from the SBU or receives the actual items into inventory, the items are transferred to the consignment or in‑transit location rather than being issued out of inventory. The actual sales order issue occurs when the customer receiving the items notifies the PBU of usage, just like other consigned shipments.

See Enterprise Material Transfer (EMT).