Sales Order

• Sales Order is a document given by the seller to the customer / buyer before delivering the goods which are mentioned in Purchase Order.
• Sales Order document contains product details like Date, Price of product / service, delivery schedule,etc. 

Fields in sales order : 

• Sales order id.
• Purchase order id.
• Date of sales order issued.
• Addresses : ship to address, bill to address.
• Supplier details.
• Associates details.
• Required ship date.
• Shipping date.
• Order details : Item name, Item type, Item sub category, required quantity, available quantity, price per unit, additional charges, total amount.
• Terms and conditions. 
• Delivery mode.

Sales Order Types :

       Sales order is classified into 3 types

• Standard sales order.
• Mixed sales order.
• Returns sales order.

Standard Sales Order :

       Standard sales order again classified into 2 types.

• Back-To-Back sales order.
• Drop Shipment sales order.

   Drop Shipment Sales Order :

• If customer had ordered the goods and it is not available in the company. Then company will raise the purchase order and then delivery the goods directly to the customer. The goods will not be coming to company again. Goods will directly send to the customer from Suppliers.

   Back-To-Back Sales Order :

• If customer had ordered the goods and it is not available.The goods will come to the company from supplier(or another company) and then some manufacturing will be done(according to the customer requirement) and then deliver to the customer.

Sales Order Life Cycle :

Status	Description
Draft	Sales orders when created will be in Draft status before sending to the contact
Open	Sales order once sent to the contact will be changed to Sent status.
Due	Sales order once sent to the contact with a due date for shipping, will be shown as Due.
Over due	Once the due date for shipping is exceeded, it will be shown as Overdue.
Partially paid	When the sales order is invoiced for a part of the items in the sales order then the status will show as Partially Invoiced.
Invoiced	Once the sales order is converted as an invoice it will change to the Invoiced status.

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