Shipment Types

The shipment type code of a sales order line indicates whether the goods for the order are to be sourced from warehouse inventory or directly from a remote source.  When remote sourcing an order, the value of the shipment type on a sales office's sales order line translates to the value of the order type of the purchase order.

If a sales order line is associated with a requisition line, the shipment type of the line (warehouse or direct) is transferred to the type of the requisition.  When the requisition line is covered by a purchase order, the order type will be set to the same value (warehouse or direct) as the type of requisition.  Since the shipment type is specified at the line level, a sales order can be covered by multiple purchase orders with order types of "D" or "W".  However, even if the purchase order lines have the same shipment type, a separate purchase order must be created if different vendors are entered for the sales order lines.