Order changes

Changes on already received sales orders: allowed propagation of changed purchase orders and handling of deviating item numbers.

Purpose

If the partner changes a purchase order after sending it, BE-terna Intercompany can propagate the change to the sales order that was created from it. This page describes the conditions for that and how deviating item numbers are handled.

Business value

Later quantity and price changes stay in sync between the purchase and sales sides.
No manual cancel-and-recreate of the sales order.
A clear rule for item-number changes (only before shipment).

Focus areas

Activation on the IC partner card

On the IC partner card you allow order changes on already received sales orders. Changes coming in from a re-sent purchase order then take effect on the existing sales order.

Deviating item number

When order changes are allowed, you must decide how to handle a deviating number on the sales line. Important:

A number change is only possible as long as the line has not been shipped.
After shipment, the original number stays; further changes are rejected.

Prerequisite: quantity 0 on posting

To post order changes that set lines to quantity 0, posting with quantity 0 should be allowed:

Outcome

Order changes flow into the existing sales order automatically.
Differences between purchase order and confirmation stay manageable.