regarding purchase order number

[Former Member]

Hi

Just basic question in Sales document.

While creating Sales order, we are giving purchase order number in header.

why its required.

Can somebody explain me...

Regards

Chandra

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

for information purpose only. to link sales transactions with the PO received from customer. sometimes it is needed in sales reports - e.g. sales register

the field is a text field and does not have any control.

[Lakshmipathi]

Just go to any sale order, place your mouse on this field and press F1. The explanation given therein is self explanatory.

G. Lakshmipathi

[kalyan_mokirala]

Hi Chandra,

It is customer's reference number. Using this reference customer order can be tracked. For example if customer has any query regarding the order he placed, he can just refer the PO number and based on which customer service track the order of customer.

If you look an EDI order, Order is created in some legacy system and Data flows to SAP and an SAP order is created through an inbound IDOC. Then wat is the way to track the legacy system's order? It is through the purchase order number,based on which customer service can track the order information. This is just an example for your understanding of the field of order.

Hope this explains.

Edited by: mokirala tilak on Aug 12, 2011 10:51 AM