Sales Order Creation
Sales Orders are the core focus of Oracle Order Management module. Sales Order will have all the details of items/goods/services requested by the customer and the due dates.
Sales Order can be entered in multiple ways
- Manual entry (based on a phone call, fax)
- Order Import (through API / Concurrent program)
- Copy from an existing sales order
- Convert from an Quote
- From other CRM modules (Service, Sales)
- From an Blanket Sales Agreement
Navigation: Oracle Order Management responsibility -> Orders, Returns -> Sales Orders
This screen opens the sales order header screen.
Enter important fields required to capture sales order header information
- Customer
- Customer PO reference number
- Customer contact name
- Blanket Number if the sales order created from an existing blanket sales agreement.
- Ship to location – this is the address where items are shipped to the customer.
- Bill to Location – this is the address where invoice will sent to customer
- Order Number – Based on setup this can be auto generated or manually entered.
- Order Type (this controls the order life cycle)
- Sales Order date – defaults to current date
- Price List – Determines the price for items/services ordered.
- Sales Person – to capture metrics and calculate sales compensation
- Status – displays the current status, when order is entered the status will be ‘Entered’, as sales order progresses its status is updated.
- Currency – Defaulted from price list
- Order subtotal, tax, charges, total are summarized for viewing.
Click on ‘Others’ tab for more data entry
- Payment Terms – determines when the payment is due
- Warehouse – Default warehouse, unless a different warehouse entered at sales order line level, the header level warehouse is used to ship the goods.
- FOB – FOB point
- Shipping instructions – additional information for shipping clerk
- Credit card type, card holder, approval code information for credit card sales orders.
- Sales channel – used for reporting
- Shipping method – Air/ground/sea
- Freight terms – determines how freight charges are handled.
- Shipping priority – to mark urgent, rush, normal, slow orders.
- Packing instructions – additional information for packers
- Payment type – Credit, cash, EFT, Check
Click on the Lines to enter line level information
- Enter Item, quantity, UOM.
- Unit price will be defaulted from price list.
- Enter requested date and scheduled ship date
- Enter order line type (determines sales order line life cycle)
Click on ‘Pricing’ tab for additional pricing related information – Pricing context, calculate price flag, payment terms, sales agreement and pricing date.
Click on ‘Shipping’ tab to enter additional shipping information – Warehouse, source type (internal/external), request date, scheduled ship date, promise date, planning priority, shipping method, shipment priority, freight terms, line level shipping instructions/packing instructions.
Click on ‘Addresses’ tab to enter ship to customer, ship to location, ship to address, ship to contact, bill to customer, bill to location, bill to address, bill to contact, deliver to location and deliver to contact.
Click on ‘returns’ to enter return order information if this order line is for returned item.
Once all the sales order information is entered it can be scheduled, reserved, or booked to process next steps.
Andrew said on May 11, 2010
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Please keep up the good work!
Look forward to the next entry.
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Redro said on April 18, 2011
Hi Guru,
This is the one what i am expecting is, I wanna bill for services, as per your post, we have to create goods/service before going to book SO? Please advise us. It could be appreciated if you post any example.
Thanks,
REDRO
kedar said on December 21, 2011
For services billing, create a item with ‘Shippable’ flag as ‘NO’.
Enter sales order and BOOK it. As it is non-shippable item, it goes to invoicing directly
GNR Murthy said on January 16, 2012
good one. Is Blanket sales orders entered in the same screen or different ?
dba said on January 21, 2012
Where can we find customer po line number?
oracleguru said on January 21, 2012
Hi dba – you can only capture customer PO number, not line number.
Abdul Rahman said on April 17, 2014
GNR Murthy Its using the same sales order screen for order entry whereas you can create releases using sales agreement organizer screen.
Shankar Gupta said on November 28, 2014
i want to know in R12 is there any functionality that SO HEADER can be copied from one SO and SO Line can be copied from different SO.
Please let me know with examples
Venu Gopal said on March 15, 2016
Customer PO line number fails to Copied order: When using the Copy functionality, the Customer PO line number info fails carry over to the newly copied order