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Message started by Brian Snyder on 01/22/07 at 14:46:43

Title: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 01/22/07 at 14:46:43

We would like to see a dedicated purchase order field for the "SHIP TO" customer. We currently use either the "COUNTRY" field or the "ATTENTION" field, but many times those areas need to be used. It would be best to move the "BILL TO" purchase order field up under their name/address area and add the "SHIP TO" purchase order field under their name.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by kevind on 01/23/07 at 07:40:33

You can do this yourself with the Modify Forms selection under File on the menu line.

Open the appropriate .RTM file.
Select the info you want to copy.
Copy and then past this field were you want it.
Change font size, font face, etc.
Add a text description if you want.

Save the RTM.

I've done this to put Bar coded SO #'s on packing lists.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Mike_Habich on 01/23/07 at 11:02:27

...but there isn't a ship-to PO field...

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by kevind on 01/23/07 at 11:14:18

You weren't suppose to catch me not reading the entire message. :(

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Lynn_Pantic on 01/23/07 at 12:06:42

I have never before had somebody want 2 PO fields for the same order - one from the Bill To customer and one from the Ship-to. What industry is this common in?

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by HB on 01/23/07 at 13:14:46

We are receiving orders from some of our wholesale customers with instructions to "drop-ship" to one of their retail customers. It is then that we need 2 PO# fields. Currently we abuse the job number field and renamed the description in the RTM to reflect the fact that it is the drop-ship (or ship-to) PO#.
A seperate field would be greatly appreciated.

FYI: We manufacture pencils and art materials

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 01/23/07 at 13:25:30

Lynn_Pantic wrote:

I have never before had somebody want 2 PO fields for the same order - one from the Bill To customer and one from the Ship-to. What industry is this common in?

We manufacture industrial tooling. Many times the distributors we sell to want us to drop ship to the end user which requires their PO# to be used. I would say 50-60% of our orders are done this way. This is very common in our industry and most of the software used allows for this. This has always been one of our biggest complaints about DBA since we started using it back in '97

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Lynn_Pantic on 01/23/07 at 14:57:25

It certainly makes sense when you describe it that way but this is the first time anybody ever complained about it to me. Let me see if there is anyplace in the Sales Order file we could store it.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 01/23/07 at 16:10:55

Lynn_Pantic wrote:

It certainly makes sense when you describe it that way but this is the first time anybody ever complained about it to me. Let me see if there is anyplace in the Sales Order file we could store it.

That would be great if you could! :)

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Dale on 01/26/07 at 05:40:08

We'll kick in our support for this need. We manufacture a lot of items where our customer (Sold To) is an OEM, but where we ship directly to the end user -i.e. our customer's customer. More often than not, the end user's shipping instructions will call for their PO number on all packing slips, so that number has to appear in the SHIP TO area someplace.
Like the other people mentioned here, we use some other field for that, or crowd it into the Attention: field.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by kevind on 01/26/07 at 07:43:42

I'll have to agree that a ship to PO would be very helpful.

I checked with our sales people, and found out that they, too, often
put a drop ship customers PO # in the attention line.

A seperate string field would be useful. As it stands now,
that additional PO information ends up in the Attention area
on the UPS Labels that come out of our CPS shipping software.
The shipping people usually end up having to edit the attention so
that it comes out looking ok on the Label.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 07/31/07 at 08:58:35

Lynn,

Any chance of seeing this upgrade anytime soon?

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by chrisbowden on 08/14/07 at 15:35:57

I would also like to see this field. We drop-ship to a few customers and would find a ship-to PO # field useful.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 11/09/07 at 21:58:23

Any chance of this making its way into an update in the near future?

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Brian Snyder on 02/23/10 at 16:59:47

Well it's been a couple of years now and this hasn't made it into an upgrade so what would it take ($$) to get this accomplished. It looks like there are others out there that could use this also.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by RPCAdmin on 02/24/10 at 05:27:10

You may want to e-mail Lynn directly for that quote - both for a price and timeline.

Title: Re: PO# field for the Ship To customer
Post by Lenette on 06/28/10 at 13:28:22

we have this request on occasion as well. it would be nice to have that option.