O/E Shipment Entry Screen
The Calc. Taxes button appears on the Taxes tab. Click the button to calculate and overwrite any existing tax amounts on the Taxes tab.
Note: If you do not select the Calculate Tax option on the Taxes tab, you can change tax amounts manually after clicking the Calc. Taxes button.
You can also use the Calc. Taxes button to recalculate taxes after changing the tax authority – even if you have selected the Calculate Tax option.
For more information about entering taxes manually, see Entering Taxes Manually .
If you use Payment Processing, this button becomes available after you pre-authorize a credit card payment.
Click Capture to open the O/E Prepayments screen, and then click Charge to begin processing the payment.
Note: The Quick Charge button cannot be used to capture a payment.
For more information, see About Pre-authorizing, Capturing, and Forcing Credit Card Payments .
Click this button to view the components that make up a kit or a BOM. For more information, see O/E Kitting Components Screen or O/E BOM Components Screen .
This button is available on the Rates tab if you calculate the tax amount in the tax reporting currency manually (if you report taxes in a different currency than you collect them).
If you have already changed the tax reporting amount on the Taxes tab, click Derive Rate to calculate the actual exchange rate between the tax amount and the tax reporting amount.
- If Order Entry automatically calculates the tax amount in the tax reporting currency, it will use the tax reporting currency exchange rate that you enter on the Rates tab.
- The rate on the Rates tab must match the effective exchange rate before you can post the document.
- If you change the total amount on the Taxes tab, you must redistribute the tax reporting amount to the document details.
This button is available if you do not select the Calculate Tax option.
When you click the Dist. Taxes button, the total tax (from the Taxes tab) is prorated to the document details.
Note: You can review tax amounts for document details on the O/E Items/Taxes screen. For more information, see O/E Items/Taxes Screen .
Click this button to review the sales history for a selected item or a customer. For more information, see Looking Up Sales History for Items or Customers .
Click Item/Tax to open the O/E Items/Taxes screen.
You can use this screen to add, edit, and delete items and charges, and to change tax information for items and charges. The screen displays details for each item or charge on a single screen, rather than in a table row, making it easier for you to review and modify information without scrolling.
You can also change a tax class to another tax class that is assigned to the authority, and you can specify whether tax is included (in the Tax Included column).
For more information, see O/E Items/Taxes Screen .
Click this button to post a transaction. When you post, you can print documents related to the transaction. Depending on the transaction and the options you selected, you may be able to print a quote, order confirmation, picking slip, prepayment receipt, and/or invoice. For more information, see O/E Confirmation Screen .
- If you have set up Order Entry to check customer credit limits, and the transaction you are posting will put the customer over their credit limit, the O/E Credit Check screen appears when you post. On this screen, you can put the transaction on hold. Also, depending on how your system is set up, you may be able to override the customer's credit limit and continue with posting.
- For job-related transactions, if you change the status of a contract from Estimate to Open, and then post, you cannot change the contract's status back to Estimate. For more information, see About Order Entry Integration with Project and Job Costing.
Click Prepayment to open the O/E Prepayments screen, which you use to enter complete or partial payments for a transaction. For more information, see O/E Prepayments Screen.
Note: If you use Payment Processing, the Prepayment button is replaced with the Capture button after you pre-authorize a credit card payment.
This button is available on the Order or Shipment tab if a document includes any details. It provides a quick way to ship outstanding items for an order.
When you click Ship All, all backordered quantities are shipped. That is, for each detail, the number in the Quantity Backordered field is added to the Quantity Shipped field.
Important! Because this button uses backordered quantities to determine the number to enter in Quantity Shipped, it will not work properly if you do not enter backordered quantities, or if you use the option to calculate backordered quantities automatically.
Tip: To cancel shipment for a detail, enter 0 (zero) in the Quantity Backordered field. The quantity ordered will be added to the Sales Lost field on the O/E Sales Statistics report.
Note: If the Allow Negative Inventory Levels option is not selected in Inventory Control, Order Entry ships only those quantities on hand in Inventory Control.
This field displays the status of the shipment. A shipment is automatically assigned Completed status when you post an invoice for the shipment.
Enter the customer number of the customer to whose account you will post the transaction.
The customer number determines the customer and billing address, and sets the default tax group and payment terms. In multicurrency systems, the customer number also specifies the currency of the document.
Note: After you enter a customer number, the field to the right displays the customer's name.
You can enter an existing customer number in the following ways:
- Enter the number, and then press Tab.
- Use the Finder
to select the number.
Using the buttons to the right of the Customer No. field, you can:
- Create a new customer. Click the New
button to create a new customer on the A/R Customers screen. When you finish, the new customer number appears in the Customer No. field.
- Check the customer's credit. Click the Pre Credit Check
button to check the customer's credit status before entering a transaction.
- Edit the customer's billing address. Click the Zoom
button to view and edit the customer's billing address for the current transaction. (Any changes you make apply to the current transaction only, and are not saved to the customer record.)
- Look up information about the customer. Click the Inquiry
button to open the A/R Customer Inquiry screen to look up information about the customer.
If a customer account or its account set is inactive, you cannot enter transactions for the customer. If a customer account becomes inactive after you enter an order, you will not be able to post changes or invoices for the order until the account is made active again.
If the Allow Non-existent Customers option is selected on the O/E Options screen, you can enter a new customer number, and then continue entering the document. In a multicurrency system, the currency for the order is set by the reporting currency of the customer tax group that you choose.
You should not use this method to enter transactions in a multicurrency system, especially if the reporting currencies for customer tax groups do not match your customers' currencies.
Also note that you must add the customer record in Accounts Receivable before you post an invoice for the order in Accounts Receivable.
This field displays the name of the person who entered the transaction.
Use the Customer tab to specify information about the customer, including shipping method, price list, and eligibility for discounts.
By default, this field displays the account set specified for the customer on the A/R Customers screen.
The account set specifies the General Ledger accounts to which the transaction will be distributed: receivables control, payment discounts, prepayment liability, retainage, and write-offs.
You can change the account set for a transaction. If you use multicurrency, however, you must select an account set that uses the same currency as the customer's account set.
Select a code that identifies the price discount level for the customer. You can select Base, A, B, C, D, or E.
If you select Base, and the discount is based on customer type, the customer is not eligible for price discounts.
- You specify customer type on the A/R Customers screen, but you can change it for an individual order.
- Item prices in Inventory Control are specified by customer type.
If applicable, enter the free-on-board (FOB) location at which the customer begins paying freight charges on the order.
If a default FOB point or primary ship-to location is specified for the customer on the A/R Customers screen, the FOB point from the customer record or the ship-to location appears in this field when you select a customer.
Enter the code for the default price list from which prices are displayed on detail lines.
Order Entry displays the price list from the customer record, template, or ship-to location, depending on the order in which you select these records. For example, if you specified the ship-to location last, the price list for the location appears in the Price List field.
Note: You can select different price lists for individual detail lines.
Enter an optional ship-via code to specify the delivery method for the shipment.
If you specified a primary ship-to location for the customer on the A/R Customers screen in Accounts Receivable, the ship-via code for that ship-to location record appears as the default.
If the transaction uses a template, the description field to the right displays the description for the ship-via code used in the template by default.
If you select a ship-to location with an associated ship-via code for the transaction, the description for that location's ship-via code replaces the default description.
You can change the description if necessary.
Enter the code for the customer's tax group.
The tax group determines the tax authorities to which the customer is subject, and the tax classes that are used for each authority to calculate sales tax.
You can change the tax group at any time, even after posting. (For example, if you change the ship-to location on a posted order, you can also change the tax group to include the tax authorities for the new location.)
Note: If you use Project and Job Costing, see About Order Entry Integration with Project and Job Costing for information about specifying tax groups for contracts and projects.
Enter the terms code for the transaction.
The terms code specifies the default terms that appear when you enter transactions for the customer in Accounts Receivable and Order Entry. In Accounts Receivable, you use the A/R Terms screen to set up terms codes, and you use the A/R Customers screen to assign a terms code to each customer.
You can specify different terms for the customer during transaction entry without changing the default terms code assigned to the customer in Accounts Receivable.
If optional fields are assigned to the screen, use the Optional Fields tab to enter optional field information that applies to the entire document.
Optional fields and values appear automatically on this tab if you selected the Auto Insert option for those fields on the O/E Optional Fields setup screen.
If you use identical optional fields in Order Entry transactions and Accounts Receivable invoices, the information in the Order Entry fields is sent to Accounts Receivable.
Note: If an optional field is required but does not have a default value, you must specify a value for the field.
For more information, see About Optional Fields and Adding Optional Fields to Transaction Entry Screens.
The Rates tab appears only if you use multicurrency accounting and you are entering a document for a customer who does not use your company’s functional currency. You use this tab to view and edit rate information for currency conversion.
The Rates tab can show the following groups of exchange rate information:
- Order Exchange Rate (if you are creating or have created an order)
- Shipment Exchange Rate (if you are shipping or have shipped goods)
- Invoice Exchange Rate (if you are creating or have created an invoice)
- Credit Note Exchange Rate or Debit Note Exchange Rate (if you are creating a credit note or a debit note)
If the tax group for this document uses a different currency than the customer's currency or your functional currency, the tab also shows the rates for converting document amounts to the tax reporting currency.
You use the Rates tab to:
- Change the rate type, rate date, and exchange rate for converting the order, credit note, or debit note amounts from the customer's currency to your company's functional currency.
- If you are shipping goods, change rate information for converting the shipped amount from customer's currency.
- If you are invoicing shipped goods, change rate information for the invoice.
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If you are reporting taxes in a different currency than you collect them, enter or derive the rate for converting amounts to the tax reporting currency.
If Order Entry automatically calculates amounts in the tax reporting currency, it uses the tax reporting currency exchange rate that appears on this tab.
If you manually entered a tax amount in the tax reporting currency, click Derive Rate to calculate the exchange rate for the tax reporting currency.
For more information, see About Exchange Rates .
This field displays the currency code and description for the customer's currency.
The currency is set for the customer in Accounts Receivable, and you cannot change it in Order Entry.
If the tax group specified for this document on the Customer tab uses a different currency from the customer's currency and your functional currency, the code and description for that currency appear in the adjacent Tax Reporting Currency field.
For more information, see About Exchange Rates .
This field displays the exchange rate currently in effect for the specified currency and the selected rate type and rate date.
If you want to change the rate, you can click the Finder to see a list of available rates for the selected rate type and rate date.
For more information, see About Exchange Rates .
Enter the date to use to select the exchange rate. Order Entry displays the rate date that is nearest the date you entered.
You can enter any date for which an exchange rate has been entered for the currency. (You enter exchange rates for currencies on the Currency screen in Common Services.)
For more information, see About Exchange Rates .
Enter the rate type to use when converting multicurrency amounts to functional currency for the document.
Examples of rate types might be "Daily spot rate," "Monthly average rate," and "Contract rate."
For more information, see About Exchange Rates .
This field displays the exchange rate currently in effect between the tax reporting currency and your functional currency for the displayed rate type and rate date. You can change the rate on this tab, or you can change the tax totals on the Taxes tab and then derive the new rate on the Rates tab.
- If you change the exchange rate for the tax reporting currency on the Rates tab, the program will change the tax reporting amounts on the Taxes tab when you use the Calc. Taxes button to calculate taxes (if you are not calculating taxes automatically).
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If you change the tax reporting amount on the Taxes tab (after clearing the Calculate Tax Reporting option), you will have to redistribute the new tax amount to the detail lines, and then enter the new tax reporting exchange rate on the Rates tab.
To calculate the new exchange rate, click the Derive Rate button on the Rates tab.
You cannot post the document unless the tax reporting exchange rate is correct for the tax reporting amount on the Taxes tab, and the tax reporting amounts for the document details match the total tax reporting amount on the Taxes tab.
You will see a warning if you change an exchange rate by an amount that exceeds the Spread setting for the currency table on the Currency Rates screen in Common Services.
The Retainage tab appears only for job-related documents that use the Retainage option.
You use this tab to specify retainage terms for orders, shipments and invoices.
If you use multicurrency accounting, you also specify the exchange rate to use for the retainage invoice, retainage debit note, or retainage credit note when outstanding retainage is processed in Accounts Receivable.
You use this field to specify the method the program will use to determine the exchange rate for the retainage document when outstanding retainage is eventually processed in Accounts Receivable.
You can choose one of the following methods:
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Use Original Document Exchange Rate—to use the same rate as the invoice for this shipment.
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Use Current Exchange Rate—to use the rate in effect when the outstanding retainage is processed in Accounts Receivable.
You can use different terms for retainage documents (used to invoice for outstanding retainage) than you use for this invoice.
If retainage terms are specified in the A/R customer record, the retainage terms code from the customer record is used as the default retainage terms code for the invoice.
If no retainage terms code is specified in the customer record, the customer’s usual terms code is used as the default.
Use the Sales Split tab to calculate sales commissions by allocating transaction totals to up to five salespersons.
You can assign portions of each transaction to the salesperson or salespersons responsible for the customer account or sale. If you track commissions for sales staff, Order Entry uses this information to update commission data when you post invoices and run Day End Processing.
When you enter a transaction in Order Entry, the salespersons assigned to the customer account in Accounts Receivable appear on the Sales Split tab by default. If you select a ship-to location, the salespersons associated with that ship-to location are used instead.
Note: You assign default salespersons to customer records and to ship-to locations in Accounts Receivable.
The salesperson listed on the first line in the table is the primary salesperson for the transaction. Some Order Entry reports list only the primary salesperson, while others allow you to sort information by primary salesperson.
You can assign the transaction to other salespeople by changing the percentage of the transaction total allocated to each salesperson. The amounts in the Percentage column must total 100 (or 0 if you do not assign salespeople to the transaction).
Enter a salesperson code to add a new salesperson, or to replace a currently assigned salesperson for a transaction.
You do not have to assign salespersons to a transaction, but if you do, the amounts in the Percentage column must total 100.
Note: You set up salesperson codes in Accounts Receivable.
The Shipment tab provides separate sections, where you can enter or view document information, as follows:
- Header. You use the top portion of the tab to enter general information that applies to the entire document (for example, the date, description, reference, template code, warehouse location, ship-to information, whether to calculate tax automatically for the document, and whether the document is job related).
- Details. You use the Details table to add and edit detail lines for items and miscellaneous charges. More...
- Inventory Quantities. The bottom of the tab displays inventory quantities for the location specified for a selected detail line and for all locations. More...
Note: Inventory quantities are displayed in the unit of measure defined for the item.
Enter an optional description of up to 60 characters for the shipment, or use the default order description that appears when you selected an order or orders from which to create the shipment.
If you do not change the description for the shipment or the invoice, the description you enter here will appear for the Accounts Receivable invoice and in the General Ledger batch, depending on the options you selected for your Order Entry system. For more information about these options, see O/E Options Screen and O/E G/L Integration Screen.
If you want to create a new shipment from multiple orders, select the From Multiple Orders option, and then click the Zoom button to open the O/E Create Shipment from Orders screen.
For more information, see O/E Create Shipment from Orders Screen.
- You must select orders before you add any detail lines for the new shipment. If you have added detail lines to the shipment, you must delete them before you can select orders.
- When you create a shipment from more than one order, all of the shipment header information (including the fields on the Optional Fields tab) comes from the first order that you select.
- If you use Payment Processing, you cannot select an order with a pre-authorized credit card payment. You must capture the payment and ship the order separately.
- You cannot combine job-related and non-job-related orders in the same shipment.
Select this option if the document applies to a project that you are managing using Project and Job Costing.
When you select the option, additional columns appear in the detail table so you can enter job-related information for each detail line.
When you post the document, Order Entry updates the contracts, projects, categories, and (if required) resources in Project and Job Costing to which the items in this order apply.
For more information, see About Order Entry Integration with Project and Job Costing.
Specify the inventory location from which you expect to ship items to fill the order.
This location is the default location for detail lines included in the transaction, although you can select different locations for individual detail lines.
Note: If you select a logical inventory location instead of a physical location, an error message appears. (Logical locations are used mainly for transferring goods between physical locations in Inventory Control.)
This field displays the number of shipments that have been processed from the order—not including the currently displayed shipment.
Important! If you are reviewing the last posted shipment for the order, the number in this field does not include the currently displayed shipment. For example, if you have posted 10 shipments and you are viewing the last posted shipment, this field displays 9, not 10.
Enter the number of the order that you want to ship.
After entering the order number, you can click the Drilldown button to view the order in the O/E Order Entry Screen, or click the Inquiry
button to view more information about the order.
Note: If you want to ship more than one order, select the From Multiple Orders option, and then click the Zoom button to open the O/E Create Shipment from Orders screen and select the orders.
If necessary, enter the customer's purchase order number in this field.
If you selected Warning or Error on the Check for Duplicate POs list on the Invoicing tab of the A/R Customers screen, Order Entry displays a warning or error message if you enter a purchase order number that has already been used for this customer.
- Order Entry checks for duplicate purchase order numbers only on active or future orders—not on quotes or standing orders.
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By default, you can edit this field only if an order is not specified for the shipment. However, you can make this field editable at any time until the shipment is invoiced by adding the following to the OE.INI file:
[UnconditionalPONumberEditInShipmentEntry]
Allowed=Yes
The posting date is different from the document date. The posting date determines the year and period to which a transaction is posted in General Ledger. You can change the posting date, but you cannot change the Fiscal Year/Period field separately.
In a multicurrency system, posting dates are also used to select open documents for currency revaluation, so that revaluation adjustments are posted to the correct fiscal year and period in General Ledger.
Depending on your settings in the O/E Options screen, Order Entry displays the session date or the document date as the default in this field.
Note: If you consolidate G/L transactions, the posting date for consolidated entries is the last date of the fiscal period.
Select this option if Project and Job Costing will handle all invoicing for this document.
If you select this option:
- Order Entry does not create an invoice for the order. (When you ship the order, Order Entry passes shipment information to Project and Job Costing, where billing is handled using the PJC Create Billing Worksheet screen.)
- Taxes are calculated automatically. (You cannot clear the Calculate Tax option.)
- The Retainage option is not available. (All invoicing, including retainage amounts, is handled by Project and Job Costing.)
For more information, see About Order Entry Integration with Project and Job Costing.
Displays the inventory quantity that is committed to orders.
By committing an inventory quantity to an order, you ensure that the required inventory will be available when it is time to ship the order. (If a quantity is already committed to an order, you cannot ship another order for the same items unless there is a sufficient quantity in inventory in addition to the committed quantity.)
Tip: You can click the Drilldown button to the right of the displayed quantities to view more information (such as the customer and the expected ship date).
By default, this field displays the reference information from the order you selected (or from the first order if you selected multiple orders). You can edit the information in this field if necessary.
If you do not edit this field for the shipment or the invoice, the reference information that appears here will appear for the Accounts Receivable invoice and in the General Ledger batch, depending on the options you selected for your Order Entry system. For more information about these options, see O/E Options Screen and O/E G/L Integration Screen.
Select this option to indicate that retainage applies to the document you are entering. (Retainage is where a percentage of the payment is held back for a fixed period of time, and then invoiced separately after the hold-back period.)
When you select this option, the Retainage tab becomes available. You use this tab to specify how to process the retainage amount for the document.
- The Retainage option is available only if you are entering a job-related transaction and your Accounts Receivable ledger uses the Retainage Accounting option.
- The Retainage option is not available if you select Project Invoicing (where invoicing is handled through Project and Job Costing).
Enter a ship-to location that you have defined for the customer on the A/R Ship-To Locations screen in Accounts Receivable. You can do this in the following ways:
- Enter the ship-to location, and then press Tab.
- Use the Finder
to select the location.
Using the buttons to the right of the field, you can:
- Create a new ship-to location. Click the New
button to create a new ship-to location on the A/R Ship-To Locations screen. When you finish, the new ship-to location appears in the Ship-To Location field.
- Edit the customer's ship-to address. Click the Zoom
button to view and edit the customer's ship-to address for the current transaction. (Any changes you make apply to the current transaction only, and are not saved to the customer record.)
- When you enter a ship-to location, Order Entry updates the price list, territory, tax group, and sales split information for the transaction based on the information stored for the ship-to location.
- If you do not specify a ship-to location, Order Entry uses the address in the customer record.
Select an optional template to use for the transaction. The information from the template appears as defaults in fields for the transaction.
- If the customer record specifies information that is different from the information in the template, the information from the customer record appears by default.
- If you select a new template after selecting a customer, the information from the template replaces the transaction and customer information from the customer record.
- If you want to select a template after you have added details to the transaction, you must select a template that uses the same currency.
- You set up templates on the O/E Templates screen.
All detail fields appear as columns in the detail table.
- To open a separate detail entry screen to view and change information for a selected detail, click Items/Taxes.
- Below the table, inventory quantities are displayed for the item in the selected detail line. Quantities are displayed for the location specified in the detail line, and for all locations. You can also click the Drilldown buttons to see more information about quantities on sales orders or purchase orders, and quantities committed.Inventory quantities are displayed in the unit of measure defined for the item.
This field appears if you selected the Job Related option for the document.
For job-related orders, specify the category to use for this item or charge. You also specify the WIP Account (for Project Invoicing) or the Revenue and COGS accounts and the Billing Type for the customer invoice.
Posting the document updates the committed quantities and costs for jobs in Project and Job Costing.
- If you use a term other than “Category” in Project and Job Costing, that term appears as the label for this field.
- Use the Item Number field to specify the resource.
- After you add the detail, you cannot edit this field.
This field indicates whether there are comments or instructions entered for the detail, and also allows you to add comments or instructions. For more information, see Adding Comments and Instructions to Order Entry Transactions .
- Comments for a detail line appear in the Description column on printed quotes, order confirmations, invoices, credit notes, and debit notes.
- Instructions for a detail line appear in the Description column on printed picking slips.
This field appears if you selected the Job Related option for the transaction.
For job-related orders, specify the contract to use for the item or charge. You also specify the WIP Account (for Project Invoicing) or the Revenue and COGS accounts and the Billing Type for the customer invoice.
Posting the document updates the committed quantities and costs for jobs in Project and Job Costing.
- If you use a term other than “Contract” in Project and Job Costing, that term appears as the label for this field.
- Use the Item Number field to specify the resource.
- After you add the item or charge, you cannot edit this field.
If you set up customer item numbers in Inventory Control (using the I/C Customer Details screen), you can use the customer's item number to enter the item number for the detail.
If you use customer item numbers to enter the item number for details, Order Entry will replace the customer's item number with your inventory item number, and automatically insert the customer's item number in this field. (This works the same way as the manufacturers' item numbers.)
This field displays the description from the item price list or miscellaneous charge record for the item or miscellaneous charge selected in the Item No./ Misc. Charge field.
This description appears on printed order confirmations, picking slips, and invoices. You can use the default description or enter a new description to be used for an individual transaction.
In a multicurrency system, the description from the item record appears here if the price list does not include a price in the customer’s currency.
You can specify a discount percentage or amount for each detail in an Order Entry transaction. If you specify a discount amount, Order Entry calculates the discount percentage and the discounted extended price.
You can also enter a discount percentage or amount for the transaction on the Totals tab.
The extended cost for an item detail is calculated by multiplying the item's unit cost by the item quantity.
For a miscellaneous charge detail, the extended cost is applicable only if you use Project and Job Costing and the miscellaneous charge is for a job-related document. In this case, the cost amount specified for the miscellaneous charge is used as the extended cost. For more information, see O/E Miscellaneous Charges Screen.
Note: If security is turned on for your system, you must have security authorization to view information in this field.
Type the extended price for the detail line, if needed.
Order Entry automatically calculates the extended price when you enter an order quantity. To calculate the extended price, the program divides the unit price by the pricing unit of measure conversion factor, and then multiplies the result by the order unit of measure conversion factor and the quantity ordered.
If you override the extended price calculated by Order Entry, an asterisk appears beside it on the O/E Items/Taxes screen, and also appears beside the item on the Shipment List.
If you change the extended price, Order Entry does not recalculate the unit price.
The quantity shipped multiplied by the unit weight entered for the item in Inventory Control (or in the Unit Weight field). You can override the extended weight, if necessary.
Order Entry calculates a weight for the shipment, using the extended weights from each line, and converting it to the default weight UOM specified in Inventory Control.
You can use the calculated shipping weight for determining the postage, shipping, or other charges.
Enter the item number or miscellaneous charge code for the item or charge. Order Entry displays information from the Inventory Control item record, including pricing unit and unit price information based on the customer's price list.
Note: After entering an item number in this field, you can use the Finder to see alternate items for the specified item. For more information about specifying alternate items, see the Inventory Control help.
After you add an item or charge, you can no longer change its item number or miscellaneous charge code.
If the selected item is part of a kit or a BOM (bill of materials) in Inventory Control, click the Finder to select the kit or BOM number (if you have more than one build for the item).
To review the items in the build, click the Components button at the bottom of the screen.
- You can create kits from stock or non-stock items in Inventory Control and then use them in Order Entry. You can also enter or post multiple kitting entries (or mix kitting entries with regular entries) in any Order Entry transaction entry screen.
- Kits can be assigned serial numbers that are maintained in Serialized Inventory.
- You can include kit components and BOM components when printing order confirmations, quotes, picking slips, invoices, credit notes, and debit notes.
- When you print the O/E Transaction List report and select Detail as the report type, the report displays kit components and BOM components.
- When you print the O/E Posting Journals report, it includes actual breakdown amounts for each kit component.
Order Entry displays the code for the location from which you shipped the items for the detail line.
Note: An error message if you select a logical inventory location instead of a physical location. (Logical locations are used mainly for transferring goods between physical locations in Inventory Control.)
If you have set up manufacturer's item numbers in Inventory Control, you can enter the manufacturer's item number (usually a bar code) in this field, rather than entering your inventory control item number. The manufacturers' item numbers are translated to your inventory item numbers by Inventory Control.
If you entered the manufacturer's item number in the Item Number field, Order Entry inserts it here automatically when it retrieves item information.
For more information about using manufacturer's item numbers, see the Inventory Control help.
If you use optional fields, you can review and edit optional fields by clicking the Optional Fields column heading. (If you are using the O/E Items/Taxes screen, click the Zoom button beside the Optional Fields option.)
If an optional field is required, you cannot save the transaction unless the field has a default value, or until you fill in the field yourself.
To add optional item fields that were not automatically inserted, press the Insert key to add a new line to the table, and then use the Finder to select an optional field.
Optional fields must be assigned to the transactions screens using the O/E Optional Fields screen before you can add them to individual transactions. For more information, see O/E Optional Fields Screen .
In this field, enter the number for the order that you want to ship, or use the Finder to select the number. After you select an order number, Order Entry fills in the details from the order.
If you want to ship more than one order at this time, select the From Multiple Orders option on the Shipment tab, and then click the Zoom button to open the O/E Create Shipment from Orders screen.
Price checks are set in Inventory Control price lists for particular items, price lists, and user IDs.
If price checks are in effect, and the price you enter is outside the boundaries allowed, this field displays "Yes." Depending on how your system is set up, you may be able to approve the price, as follows:
- In the Price Approval column heading, click the Zoom
button.
- On the O/E Price Approval screen, enter the ID of the person approving the price override. If security is set, you must also enter a password.
Note: The Price Approval field does not appear if you are using the O/E Item/Taxes screen. Instead, an error message may appear when you try to save the item detail, stating that the price requires approval.
For more information, see About Price Checks .
This field indicates whether the item is priced by weight or by quantity.
- If pricing is by quantity, Sage 300 sets volume discount amounts or percentages according to the quantity of goods that are ordered.
- If pricing is by weight, Sage 300 sets volume discount amounts or percentages by item weight.
Item weights are calculated in Order Entry by multiplying the unit weight of an item times the quantity ordered, and converting the weight to default units.
Note: Pricing by weight is available in Sage 300 Premium only.
The program displays the price list code used for the detail on the shipment. You can select a different price list and change item pricing for the shipment and invoice. If necessary, type the code for the price list to use for the detail or choose a price list from the Finder.
By default, the program displays the price list code you specified on the Customer tab.
This field displays the unit of measure in which the item is priced.
Sage 300 Premium supports multiple pricing units of measure, but you must set one as the default on the I/C Item Pricing screen in Inventory Control.
The pricing UOM is determined by the price list as follows: If the price list provides only one pricing UOM, that UOM appears here. If the price list provides several pricing UOMs, the pricing unit that matches the order UOM appears here. If no pricing UOM matches the order UOM, the default pricing UOM appears here. If you price by cost, the default pricing UOM appears here, and the cost-based price appears in the Unit Price field.
Note: If the item is not on the specified price list, the program uses the item's stocking unit as the pricing unit.
This field appears if you selected the Job Related option for the document.
For job-related orders, specify the project for the item or charge. You also specify the WIP Account (for Project Invoicing) or the Revenue and COGS accounts and the Billing Type for the customer invoice.
Posting the document updates the committed quantities and costs for jobs in Project and Job Costing.
- If you use a term other than “Project” in Project and Job Costing, that term appears as the label for this field.
- Use the Item Number field to specify the resource.
- After you add the item or charge, you cannot edit this field.
If you did not ship the entire order and you use backorder quantities, the program displays the quantity backordered in this field. (If you use backordered quantities, the quantity shipped plus the quantity backordered usually matches the quantity on order.)
- If you set this field to zero, Order Entry marks the line as complete and adds the line amount (the quantity ordered) to the Sales Lost fields on the O/E Sales Statistics report.
- If you by increase the quantity backordered for a fully shipped detail, Order Entry marks the order as incomplete.
This is the quantity of goods that you are shipping for this detail line.
If you calculate backorders automatically, the program will change the backordered quantity when you enter a quantity shipped.
If you click the Ship All button, the program will entered the backordered quantity in this field.
You can change the quantity shipped until you have fully invoiced the shipped quantities for the shipment detail.
If the item is serialized or lotted and you did not allocate serial numbers or lot numbers to the quantity ordered, the O/E Serial/Lot Numbers Allocation screen appears after you enter the quantity shipped and leave the field. You use this screen to allocate serial numbers or lot numbers for the quantity of items ordered. For more information, seeO/E Serial/Lot Numbers Allocation/Generation Screen.
If Inventory Control allows the allocation of serial numbers or lot numbers to order quantities (controlled by the Use the Qty Ordered Field in OE option), you can ship only the serial and lot numbers already allocated from the Quantity Ordered field. (You cannot use the O/E Serial/Lot Numbers Allocation screen to allocate numbers using the Quantity Shipped field.)
Order Entry uses the retainage percentage to calculate the retainage amount for each detail line on the shipment. It is a weighted average percentage, based on the sum of the details.
You can enter a different retainage percentage in the Retainage % field. When you enter a new percentage, Order Entry recalculates the retainage amount for the detail.
The retainage amount is the amount the customer can withhold for an original document detail until the end of the retention period, when retainage is invoiced.
To calculate the retainage amount, Order Entry multiples the extended detail amount (or the extended amount plus tax, if you include taxes in retainage) by the retainage percentage.
Order Entry displays the sum of the retainage amounts for all shipment details in this field. You cannot change the amount.
If the document is job-related and you are not using project invoicing, you also specify the revenue/billing account for each item or charge.
The default account number is specified in Project and Job Costing, and is used instead of the sales account specified for the item in the item category record.
The unit of measure for shipping this item, such as "Each", "Dozen", or "Crate."
Normally, the shipment unit of measure is the same as the order unit of measure for the detail line. However, you can use a shipment unit of measure that is different from the order UOM.
Note: If the shipment UOM is different from the order UOM, the quantity backordered may not be calculated properly and may result in over-shipment or under-shipment. Make sure the number of units you specify for the detail is expressed in the unit of measure you select.
Job-Related Orders and Shipments
If you are entering job-related orders or shipments where: The Default Order UOM = Pricing Unit (set on the O/E Options screen).andThe Default Billing Rate = Billing Rate (set for the project in Project and Job Costing).
Order Entry defaults the unit of measure from the current price list, and then recalculates the unit price based on the billing rate specified in PJC Contract Maintenance.
Note: You can use different units of measure in the Inventory Control Price List and in Contract Maintenance.
This is the unit of measure for weighing this item on the shipment.
Depending on your settings in O/E Options, Order Entry displays either the item weight unit (from the item record) or the pricing weight unit (from the price list).
You can change the weight unit of measure for the detail line, if necessary.
The weight UOM for the complete order is determined by the default weight unit of measure set on the I/C Options screen.
The field displays the number of item units that have been shipped for the detail on previous shipments.
Select the type of detail you are entering: Select Item to add a detail line for an inventory item or non-stock item that is assigned an item number in Inventory Control.Select Miscellaneous to add a detail line for a miscellaneous charge defined in Order Entry.
Tip: You can select a detail type by typing the first letter (for example, type M for Miscellaneous), or you can toggle between available selections by pressing the spacebar or double-clicking in the field.
You enter the unit cost for an item only if the item uses the user-specified costing method in Inventory Control (that is, if User-Specified appears in the Costing Method field on the I/C Items screen).
For more information, see Inventory Costing Methods.
Note: If security is turned on for your system, you must have Item Cost Inquiry authorization to view and edit information in this field.
By default, this field displays the lowest unit price for which the customer is eligible. This may be the base price, a sale price for a specified time period, or the price specified for the customer's price level or the quantity purchased, based on a discount or markup.
If necessary, enter the price for the item, per pricing unit.
- If price checks are in effect, and the unit price is outside the allowed limit, the price must be approved. For more information, see About Price Checks .
- You can edit the information in this field only if you have Unit Price Override security authorization in Order Entry.
- If the item is not on the price list you specified for the detail, no price appears.
- If the lowest price is a negative amount, it is displayed as zeros.
- If you set up contract pricing for a customer in Inventory Control, Order Entry uses that information to calculate prices for items affected by the customer’s pricing contract, and it displays the contract price by default in this field.
- If you do not set up contract pricing for a customer, Order Entry calculates prices based on the customer type and the price lists you set up in Inventory Control.
- If the price list you select is not currently in effect: The Unit Price Finder does not appear. (That is, the Finder does not appear if the document date is not between the Price List Starts date and the Price List Ends date specified for the item, currency, and price list code on the I/C Item Pricing screen.)The Unit Price field displays 0.000000 by default.
- The number of decimal places that appear in this field is determined by the information specified for the item on the I/C Item Pricing screen.
Unit weight is the weight of a single item for this detail, expressed in the order weight unit of measure. You can edit the weight that appears in this field.
To calculate the extended weight, multiply the unit weight by the quantity ordered.
If you are pricing by weight, the unit weight and extended weight determine the price. Otherwise, the weight is used only to determine the total order weight for estimating shipping costs.
If the document is job-related and you are using project invoicing, you also specify the WIP (Work in Progress) account for each order detail.
By default, this field displays the account number specified in Project and Job Costing.
Note: The level at which the WIP account is specified in Project and Job Costing depends on the project type and accounting method.
Use the Taxes tab to select the method you will use to calculate taxes, and to review and change tax information for a document.
For each Order Entry document, you can specify whether taxes are calculated automatically or entered manually.
If you want Order Entry to calculate tax for this document, select the Calculate Tax option.
Note: If the document is job-related and you selected the Project Invoicing option, you cannot enter taxes manually. The Calculate Tax option is automatically selected, and you cannot change it.
If you want to enter tax amounts manually, do not select the Calculate Tax option. If you do not select this option :
- The Dist. Taxes button appears on the screen.
- You can enter tax amounts for the tax authorities listed for the document.
Click Dist. Taxes to prorate tax that you enter manually on the Taxes tab to the document details. For more information, see Entering Taxes Manually.
Note: You cannot prorate a tax amount to an authority that uses an exempt tax class.
Select this option if you want the program to automatically calculate tax reporting amounts for the document. Sage 300 calculates the amount in the tax reporting currency by applying the exchange rate between the source currency and the tax reporting currency.
If you clear this option, you can edit tax reporting amounts.
- This option appears only if a tax authority has a tax reporting currency that is different from the source or functional currency.
- The default for this check box is determined by the Calculate Tax Reporting Amounts Automatically option on the O/E Options screen.
This table displays information about tax authorities, classes, and amounts for the current document.
If you do not select the Calculate Taxes and the Calculate Tax Reporting options, you can change the tax base, tax amount, and tax reporting amount for each authority on the document.
You cannot edit information about a tax authority directly on this tab. To change information for a tax authority, you must use the screens in Tax Services.
You can change the tax authorities used by a particular order or invoice by changing the tax group on the Customer tab.
For debit notes and credit notes, however, you must use the same tax group as the invoice you are debiting or crediting. (Also, you cannot select a template code or ship-to location that uses a different tax group than the invoice.)
This column displays the tax class that is assigned to each tax authority.
If you change the tax class for a tax authority on this screen, click Calculate Taxes to see the recalculated tax amount.
Note: If the Calculate Tax option is selected, the tax amount is recalculated automatically, but is not displayed immediately.
To change the tax class description or make other changes to the information for the specified tax group, use the Tax Services screens in Common Services.
If you selected the Calculate Tax option, this field displays the amount of tax that is due for each authority.
For each authority, Order Entry calculates a sales tax amount if: The customer is subject to tax.The order contains taxable items or taxable miscellaneous charges.Tax rates are specified for the tax authorities and classes in Tax Services.
If you are entering taxes manually, enter the total tax amount you calculated for each tax authority. Ensure that the amounts you enter agree with the sum of the tax amounts for the details, for each tax authority.
If you selected the Calculate Tax Reporting option, this field displays the tax reporting amount calculated by applying the exchange rate between the source currency and the tax reporting currency.
If you did not select the Calculate Tax Reporting option, you can edit the tax reporting amount in this field.
- This field appears only if a tax authority for the transaction has a tax reporting currency that is different from the source or functional currency.
- The default for this check box is determined by the Calculate Tax Reporting Amounts Automatically option on the O/E Options screen.
Sage 300 calculates the amount in the tax reporting currency by applying the exchange rate between the source currency and the tax reporting currency.
Enter an optional comment of up to 250 characters for the transaction, and then press Tab to add the comment.
Note: If you do not press Tab, your comment will not be saved.
Comments appear in the Comments section on printed quotes, order confirmations, invoices, picking slips, credit notes, and debit notes.
For more information, see Adding Comments and Instructions to Order Entry Transactions .
Select this option to create an invoice when you post the transaction.
When you select this option, additional fields appear on the Totals tab, letting you enter an invoice number and an invoice date.
You can invoice each shipment separately, or you can use the O/E Invoice Entry screen to invoice all shipments that have not been invoiced.
Note: This option is not available for job-related orders that use project invoicing. If you use project invoicing, all customer invoicing is handled by Project and Job Costing.
This field displays the estimated weight of the shipment, based on the weight for the units of measure and item quantities specified on the order. Use the information to calculate shipping costs or postage.
You assign item weights in the Items screen in Inventory Control. (The estimated weight is in the default weight unit of measure specified in Inventory Control.)
Default item weights are from the item records in Inventory Control, but you can override them on the shipment.
This field appears on the Totals tab if you selected the Create Invoice option in order to create an invoice when you post the shipment.
- To let Order Entry assign the invoice number, press the Tab key, leaving the field showing ***NEW***.
- If you do not want Order Entry to assign the invoice number, enter the new number.
Note: The number you enter does not update the Next Number field for invoice document numbers on the Options screen, even if you type the number that would have been assigned automatically.
If you selected the Create Invoice option, enter the posting date for the transaction.
Depending on your settings on the O/E Options screen, this field automatically displays either the current session date or the document date. You can enter another date, but you cannot change the fiscal year and period separately.
- The posting date is the date for transactions being posted to General Ledger, so it also determines the contents of the Fiscal Year and Period fields.
- If you use multicurrency accounting, currency revaluation uses posting dates to select open documents for revaluation purposes, ensuring that revaluation adjustments are posted to General Ledger in the correct fiscal year and period.
- If you consolidate G/L transactions, the posting date for consolidated entries is the last date of the fiscal period.
Use these fields to specify a discount on the shipment total.
This is a discount for a volume purchase, for example, and not an early payment discount. If you enter a discount, it is calculated on the total of all the items on the invoice. If you discount miscellaneous charges as well, the discount is also calculated for the miscellaneous charges.
You can enter a percentage discount or a fixed amount.
Note: An asterisk appears beside the amount field if you override the amount calculated from a percentage. The discount amount will not change unless you re-enter the discount percentage.
For example, assume that a 33.3333% discount produces a discount amount of 24,999,94.
If you change the amount to 25,000:
- An asterisk appears by the amount to show that the calculation was overridden.
- If you add more details to the shipment, the discount percentage is automatically recalculated for each detail (with charges, you must include charges in the discount), but the discount amount is not recalculated unless you re-enter the discount percentage.
This field displays the total of all prepayments entered for this shipment, and for any orders included with this shipment.
Prepayments made with orders and with shipments are applied to invoices when they are posted in Accounts Receivable (matching by order number).
To apply a prepayment directly to a specific invoice, enter the prepayment with the invoice.
This field displays the total amount of the miscellaneous charge detail lines for the document.
The miscellaneous charges subtotal includes tax amounts that are included in miscellaneous charge amounts, but does not include item prices or tax amounts that are charged separately on miscellaneous charge amounts.
This field displays the total amount of all items and miscellaneous charges on the document, minus the total amount of discounts applied on individual detail lines.
This field displays the total number of detail lines (for items and miscellaneous charges) entered for the document.
If you are not invoicing the entire order, this field still displays the total number of detail lines (including those you are not invoicing).
Tip: Use this number to be sure you have entered all the details you need and deleted any unused details.
- O/E Project and Job Costing Apply Details Screen
- O/E Bank Rate Screen
- O/E Confirmation Screen
- O/E Create Shipment from Orders Screen
- O/E Customer Bill-To Address Screen
- O/E Ship-To Address Screen
- O/E Items/Taxes Screen
- O/E Kitting Components Screen
- O/E BOM Components Screen
- O/E Prepayments Screen
- O/E Pre-Transaction Credit Check Screen
- O/E Price Approval Screen
- O/E Sales History Screen
- O/E Serial/Lot Numbers Allocation/Generation Screen
Overview
Use the Shipment Entry screen to enter and post shipments, add miscellaneous charges, create invoices, print picking slips, and assign serial numbers and/or lot numbers. More...
In the header area of the O/E Shipment Entry screen, you specify the shipment number and customer number. You can also review information about any invoices associated with the shipment.
Tip: If you want to enter, ship, and invoice an order directly on the O/E Shipment Entry screen, enter order information and details without selecting an order in the Order Number field, and then select the Create Invoice option to create an invoice automatically when you ship the order.
Note: You can recall and edit a shipment until you invoice it or until the order is fully shipped.
Customer Tab
Use the Customer tab to specify information about the customer, including shipping method, price list, and eligibility for discounts. More...
Optional Fields Tab
If optional fields are assigned to the screen, use the Optional Fields tab to enter optional field information that applies to the entire document. More...
Rates Tab
The Rates tab appears only if you use multicurrency accounting and you are entering a document for a customer who does not use your company’s functional currency. You use this tab to view and edit rate information for currency conversion.
If you are shipping goods, you can also change the rate information for converting the shipped amount from customer's currency.
Retainage Tab
The Retainage tab appears only for job-related documents that use the Retainage option. You use this tab to specify retainage terms for orders, shipments and invoices.If you use multicurrency accounting, you also specify the exchange rate to use for the retainage invoice, retainage debit note, or retainage credit note when outstanding retainage is processed in Accounts Receivable.More...
Sales Split Tab
Use the Sales Split tab to calculate sales commissions by allocating transaction totals to up to five salespersons. More...
When shipping multiple orders, you should always check the Sales Split panel to ensure that the sales allocation is correct.
When you create a shipment from multiple orders, uses only the sales split for the first order. If the orders use different sales splits, you must change the allocation for the shipment manually.
If the sale is split among more than five salespersons, you should not create one shipment from the multiple orders.
For more information, see Managing Sales Splits .
Shipment Tab
Use the Shipment tab to perform the following tasks:
- Specify general information about the shipment
- Select options related to tax, project and job costing, project invoicing, and retainage
- Add and edit detail lines for items and miscellaneous charges on the Details table
You use the fields and options at the top of the Shipment tab to select one or more orders you are shipping, and to specify general information about the shipment. More...
You use the Details table to add and edit detail lines for items and miscellaneous charges. More...
Note: Some table columns do not appear as fields on the O/E Items/Taxes screen.
Taxes Tab
Use the Taxes tab to select the method you will use to calculate taxes, and to review and change tax information for a document. More...
Totals Tab
Use the Totals tab to review and edit discounts, totals, and other final document details. More...