This recipe provides the details of Blanket Order Release including the Blanket Order Release details from Sales Blanket Order Release (P420111), and also explains how to release a blanket order. The Blanket Order Release program is used to release the quantity from a Blanket Order in order to create a Sales Order.
You should enter a Blanket Order in order to have a Blanket Order to release into Sales Order.
When you create sales orders from Blanket Orders just confuses things, the Sales Blanket Order Release (P420111) application will be used to manually deduct item quantities from the Blanket Order. The system will create the sales order for the specified quantity that you released from the Blanket Order and also give you the Sales Order number. The system retains the remaining balance on the Blanket Order for future sales orders. When you release the Blanket Order, it can be specified with sales order number during the verification of Blanket Order with release date and quantity. The system ensures that the sales order number and line type combinations is unique and if this is not the case, the system discontinues the processing of the sales order and issues an error message stating that document number already exists.
The system identifies when the sales order quantity goes over the Blanket Order quantity. It also merges the order lines based on Sold To, Branch/Plant, and Currency Code information.