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Former Member
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Hello All,

What is the difference between Sales document number(VBELN) and Customer purchase order number(BSTNK) in table VAKPA.

Thanks in Advance.

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Sasidhar Reddy Matli.

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Former Member
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Hello Sasidhar,

VBELN - is used to determine the document numbers (generated by SAP system automatically in most cases) such as inquiry, quotation, sales order, develivery, invoice, contracts etc.

BSTNK - is customer purchase order number - which is a reference document number used to create quotations or sales orders i.e. VBELN.

In other words BSTNK is used as a reference doucment number to generate VBELN document number.

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Regards

Sai

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Former Member
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hi

Sales Document Number (VBELN) : it is always the system generated number when an order is placed.. this number is used for further reference of the sales order..

Purchase Order Number(BSTNK) : this is the which is given inside the sales order, this is mostly given in order to give a reference for the customer in some cases and sometimes it can be used to recognise a particular set of material , .. eg Anil/17_aug_07 or DiskPads_01 etc...

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Thanx & regards.

Naren..

Former Member
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Hi Sasidhar,

VBELN is the sales order number for which we generate the ales order for the PO given by the customer where as BSTNK is the customer PO number for the customer and it is a reference document for us to create the sales order.

The basic point was BSTNK is the input for VBELN.

Thanks,

Vinay

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Sales document number is generated internal by system exmp-->sales order no

Purchase order number is customer will give the no for the order based on that order will created

Former Member
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hi

sales document number VBELN is the system generated number for a sales document either internal or external

whereas

BSTNK purchase order number is the number quoted by the customer while placing the placing the order

regards

prashanth