EMT begins at the PBU when you enter a confirmed sales order line for an item that has been set up for EMT processing. Either enter the sales order manually in Sales Order Maintenance (7.1.1) or use EDI eCommerce to import your customer’s purchase order.

When the sales order is confirmed, EMT automatically generates the appropriate purchase orders, called EMT POs. You then use EDI eCommerce to export EMT POs to the supplier. When imported, these become secondary sales orders. In multilevel EMT, you can generate another purchase order from a secondary sales order, which is again exported to a lower level of the supply chain.

Throughout the life cycle of an EMT sales order, you exchange several other types of electronic documents with other business units: