Blanket Orders

Blanket orders define the overall financial conditions applicable to a bill-to customer.  They act as overall contracts between you and your customers.  All subsequent information regarding actual customer orders--delivery conditions, delivery point information, endorsement--is based upon a blanket order.

You can have several blanket order contracts for a customer.  This allows you to apply different discounts and payment methods for different items ordered by the same bill-to customer.  You link the blanket order to the item through the endorsement.

Blanket orders contain the following information:

·     The customer's contract number used to identify this blanket order contract.

·     Date on which this blanket order becomes valid.  A blanket order is valid until deactivated.

·     Company/Location of the bill-to customers.

·     Order class.

·     Contract number.

·     Currency in which to bill the customer.

·     Payment terms, method, and type.

·     VAT Code or US. tax, Home/Export flag, Authorization Number.

·     Shipment terms.

·     The number of invoices.

·     The number of shipping lists.

·     The document type.  This document type will be used by the Synchro Shipping and Billing program to create the open item.  The document type will be validated against Reference File category 329 based processing is on the document group type.  It must be an invoice document type.  If Payment Time VAT Review active (defined on Reference File category M12) and the VAT declaration point is '2', the document type entered must be defined on Reference File category 329 and the sector for the document type on Reference File 329 must be defined on Reference File M19 with sector type '1'.  For more information about Payment Time VAT Review processing, refer to the VAT Key Concept in the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or Order Processing user manuals.

·     Consolidated invoicing flag.  This flag is used only if Customer KANBAN is installed.  It indicates which of the following options will be used for the blanket order:

      Consolidated invoicing will be used for all the items/delivery points on the blanket order, regardless of whether the blanket order is handled by Synchro or Customer KANBAN.