Multiple Customer POs Single Sales Order

[khidalgo (Kasey Hidalgo)]

Will Epicor 10 allow you to have multiple customer purchase orders on a single sales order? I am told that it was possible in Vantage, but I came on about a year or so after updating to Epicor and am not sure. Any thoughts?

[ckrusen (Calvin Krusen)]

Check out the following thread on the topic:

Multiple POs per Order-problems with processing payments?

Hi all There has been some discussion internally (by Finance) advocating our customer service team does NOT use multiple POs on a sales order (via the PO Line functionality). Apparently, they are told that many of our major customers have problems processing invoices from us due to PO/Invoice matching on their end. These are major hospital system customers, so I am hesitant to believe this has any bearing in reality. Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? I obviously can’t speak to t…

[Patrick (Patrick Winter)]

We have for example used the term “See Below” as the purchase order number signaling that the OrderRel.Reference field was now going to contain the purchase order number or EDI 830 Material Release number the shipment was going against. Now you just have to display the Reference field wherever needed. When printing a sales order acknowledgement it literally says in the PO field “See Below” showing the PO Number for each release date next to it. If your wanting to do this at the Order Line level similar thinking could be used with a user defined field if necessary. Hope this helps.

[khidalgo (Kasey Hidalgo)]

This was the direction I was thinking, just wanted to reach out and see how others have handled this in the past. Most of our forms are customized for our business, so it is a possibility for us to handle it this way.