Shipping Inventory from the SBU
Shipment and receipt processing vary slightly for transshipments and direct shipments.
EMT shipments are processed using Picklist/Pre-Shipper–Automatic (7.9.1) or Pre-Shipper/Shipper Workbench (7.9.2) and Pre-Shipper/Shipper Confirm (7.9.5) rather than Sales Order Shipments (7.9.15). This triggers a change record that is exported to the PBU either as an ASN or a PO change acknowledgment, based on the SBU’s trading policy with the PBU.
• For transshipments, the SBU ships the order to the PBU.
• For direct shipments, the SBU ships the order directly to the PBU’s end customer. When the sales order is created from the EMT PO at the SBU, the ship-to address becomes the end customer’s address. The end customer’s address is provided to the SBU by the imported EDI file.
The SBU creates the address as a temporary ship-to address for the PBU. This way, when the SBU ships its items, they go directly to the end customer, bypassing the PBU. Only the ASN generated during this process is sent to the PBU.
If the PBU has used Customer Item Maintenance (1.16) to set up cross-references between its own item numbers and those used by its end customers, the customer’s item number prints on shipping documents produced by the SBU.
In either case, the SBU has now finished the EMT order processing cycle and can invoice the PBU.
When the PBU imports the ASN from the SBU, the ASN automatically creates a PO shipper for the order. The PO shipper number is the same as the SO shipper number at the SBU. The EMT Tracking Report shows that the status has changed to S, indicating that the SBU has shipped the items.