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The fields in a SO are varied with the software that your are using and some of the fields in a SO are explained below.

Stone Profit Systems :

The SO is represented as Job in SPS where different fields are shown in the figure below.

1. S.O # :

The Sale Order number is written here which is generated by default according to the serial number and the date fields in the next column.

2. Customer P.O # :

The Purchase order number is updated here when a PO is created by the customer.

3. End - use segment :

The use of products in the sale by the customers after receiving is mentioned here such as used by an architect, builder, commercial purposes.

4. Project - Type :

The project type in which the products are bought for a residential or commercial constructions is mentioned.

5. Bill To :

The billing address is used to mention the location of the customer where the bills or invoices are to be sent.

6. Payment Terms :

This section specifies the terms in which the payment has to be done in how many number of days the payment should be done or the terms to make the payments.

7. Price level :

The price level is varied with the type of customer selected where each customer is defined with different price levels.

8. Ship To :

Here we have different fields which are changed according to the type of shipping done.

When Pickup or Pickup Manufacturer is selected we mention the end customer who is picking the products and the sales taxes are included.
When Delivery or Dropship or Ship Manufactured is selected we have to mention the details of the address where the delivery has to made is mention along with sales taxes, geocode and other required dates.

9. Associates :

This section is used to mention the type of associate involved with the customer are mentioned here. They act like a dealer or broker between the customer and us. And the commission amount is also mentioned there.

10. Packages :

The packages are a set of both products and services combined, where they are selected according to the customer requirement.

Peachtree :

The fields in the Peachtree are shown in the figure below :

1. Customer ID :

The customer ID is the main field in a Peachtree sales order where the details in the other fields are updated according to the data inserted when the customer ID is added.

2. Bill To and Ship To :

The default bill to address is directly selected when the customer ID is selected and we cannot change the bill to address here.
The default ship to address is also updated in the fields but we can change the ship to location if required.

3. Dropship :

The dropship is selected here when the PO that is generated by the customer wanted ship the items directly from the supplier to the specified location.

4. Sales rep :

Here we mention the sales representative of the customer who takes of the sales with that customer specified.

SAP :

The fields in SAP are shown in the figure below :

1. BP Currency :

It is the Business Partner Currency where we define the type of currency using the transaction. We can also define as all currencies, and change from all currencies to a specified currency but cannot change from specified currency to all currencies.

2. Status :

The status of the sales order is updated here, where it is defined as open, open-printed, cancelled, closed, draft, unapproved.

3. Dates :

There are three different dates in this section in which they are updated.

The posting date is defined by default when a sale order has been created.
The delivery date is used to specify the date in which the goods are to be delivered.
The document date is used for tax purposes.

Contents Tab

4. Item / Service tab :

We have to select the type of sale where item is used for creating document on item list, service is used for creating document on services. We cannot create both items and services in same sales document.

5. Summary type :

The summary type has three fields No Summary, By Documents, By Items. Its is set to No Summary by default.

When By Documents is selected it summarizes the rows with the same base document number into single row if it has same price and description.
When By Items is selected it summarizes the rows with same item into single row if it has same price and description.

6. Total(LC) :

The Total(Load Currency) is used to display the total cost along with the currency that is specified.

7. COGS Distr. Rule :

COGS is Cost Of Goods Sold in which the Distr. Rule field is used to assign the expense / revenue account the distribution rule that is automatically created for the required cost center.

8. Blanket Agreement :

The blanket agreement number is updated here. The blanket agreement are long term arrangements between the sales organization and customer based on predefined terms and conditions.

Logistics Tab

The fields in the logistics tab consists of ship to, bill to address, pick and packing list remarks.

Accounting Tab

The fields in the accounting tab consists of payment terms, payment method, tax details and some country specific fields.

Epicor :

The fields in Epicor sales order is shown in the figure below.

1. One Time Ship To :

When creating sales order from a quote, the one time ship to is used to enter information about the one time ship to the party for that order.

2. Auto Invoice :

The invoice is automatically generated for this sales order at the time of customer shipment. It allows your bill to customer to pay invoices based on packing slip information they have received.

3. FOB :

It is the Freight On Board point where the shipping of the items is done and the point at which the ownership title for the shipped goods changes to the customer.

4. Counter Sale :

Counter sale is an order that you fill form inventory, where you fill the ordered quantity while the customer waits over the counter.

Pack and invoice is selected when you immediately print a packing slip / invoice after you save a counter sale.

5. Line :

Displays the system asigned line number for the sales order line.

6. Part :

Specifies the part number for the ordered item and is updated here.

7. Rev :

Specifies the revision for the customers part number. The revision displays on the customers part reference file.

8. Kit Details :

Kit Details are selected when the ordered part included as an item in a package of parts.

The fields in a PO(Purchase Order) vary with the software that you are using, some of the fields in different ERP software's are explained below.

The fields in each software are explained by using the required screenshots where the fields are used.

Stone Profit Systems :

The fields in the PO of SPS are shown in the figure below where each field is explained further.

1. P.O # :

It is the purchase order number which is generated by default according to the serial number in which the PO is created which cannot be changed. And the date is entered in the next column.

2. Supplier Job # :

It is the supplier job number or the sale order number which is updated when the sale order is created by the supplier.

3. Status :

The status of the PO can be updated here in according to the status report of the transaction.

4. Dates :

Required ship date is used to mention the date at which the products are needed by us.
ETA date is the Estimated Time of Arrival of products from the supplier.
PO expiry date is the time in which the PO gets expired within the mentioned date.

5. Delivery Type :

The type of delivery is selected here weather the products are picked up or delivered or in any other means.

6. Shipping Terms :

It is used to indicate the terms in which how the cost of goods of the shipped products are applied.

Prepaid is used when the freight charges are paid by the supplier.
Prepaid & Add is used when the charges are first paid by the supplier and added to the bill later.
Collect is used when the charges are to be paid the buyer after collecting the goods.
Prepaid & COD is used when the freight charges are paid by the supplier and the cash or check is collected for the payment of goods that are delivered by the supplier.
Add & COD is used when the freight charges are added in the bill and cash is collected for the delivery of goods.
CAD is Cash Against Documents where the supplier retains the ownership until the payment is made and the documents that specify the terms and conditions are held by the intermediate mostly by a bank agreed both by buyer and supplier.

7. Source Supplier :

The source supplier is used when the supplier is bringing the goods are products from some other supplier in that case we mention that supplier as source supplier.

8. Supplier :

The supplier section consists of the details of the supplier including the payment terms of that supplier accordingly.

9. Purchase Location :

Here we mention the location of the purchase from where the purchase has been made which specifies the address.

10. Ship To Location :

Here we mention the location where we have to ship the goods or products which will be useful when we have two different purchase and ship to location.

11. Additional Info :

The additional info consists of details about the freight forwarder by which the shipment is done and specified dates.

The vessel number, air bill number which is used to track, Ex factory date in which the goods are received to the factory from which the buyer has to take the goods.
The departure port and its estimated time, Arrival port with its estimated time of arrival.

12. Notes :

The printed notes is used when their is anything to mention in the print out of the PO.
The internal notes are not printed on the PO its only used to view internally in the PO.

13. PO Terms :

If there is terms and conditions that you needed to mention they all are written in this section.

Consignment PO :

The fields in the consignment PO is similar to that of a normal PO.

Consignment :

The consignment is the dispatch or transfer of the goods to an agent for the purpose of sale on behalf of owner.

Consignor is the owner who sends the goods to the agent.
Consignee is the agent to whom the goods are sent.
The goods sent by consignor to the consignee is consignment outward.
The same goods will be consignment inward for the consignee.

Peachtree :

The fields in Peachtree purchase order are explained below :

1. Vendor ID :

Peachtree uses vendor for the purchases where the vendors are varied by their vendor ID's. This is used in the whole purchase cycle.

2. Remit to :

It is the mailing address to where the payment has to be sent, it may vary from the shipping address.

3. Ship to :

The address where the goods have to be shipped is mentioned in this section.

4. Good thru :

The Good through is the period in which the goods are to be delivered, by default it is for 30 days.

5. Drop ship :

The drop ship is used when you want to deliver the goods directly to the customer instead of receiving and sending it to the customer. It directly sends the goods to customers address.

6. Customer SO No :

It is the sale order number of the customer which is updated here when the sale order is generated for the customer.

7. Customer invoice No :

The invoice number of the customer is updated here after the invoice is generated for the customer.

8. Ship via :

The shipping mode of delivery is mentioned in this section where the shipment is done by courier, hand delivery or airborne etc.

9. A/P account :

It is the Account payable account where the accounts get affected for the transaction the code for the account is 2000 by default.

10. G/L account :

It is the General ledger account where we have to mention the type of account that are effecting the items accordingly.

Tally :

The PO in Tally ERP contains less number of fields as it is mostly used for small business organizations. The fields in tally are explained below.

1. Party A/c name :

It is the ledger account that is created on the parties name where the currency of the ledger is defined and name and address of the party are defined in this section and that account name is selected here.

2. Purchase Ledger :

The purchase ledger is used record your purchases and expenses whether you have paid them and how much you owe them. It is the account for every supplier which carries all the transactions of one supplier.

The remaining section is used to explain the type of the item, along with the discount percentage and the total amount is mentioned.

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