This recipe provides the details of Interbranch and Intercompany orders in the order management system.
You should set up the Order Activity Rule in order to create an Interbranch or Intercompany sales order.
When you create Interbranch orders, it is based on the document type and line type combination that you set up for Interbranch orders. An Interbranch order is used to load the orders for customers from inventory at a branch branch/plant that is not directly used for material sales. Interbranch orders are useful if the company sells from one location, but the order will load and ship from another location—that is, a central supply store. An Intercompany order is used to link the transactions of the selling branch/plant and the supplying branch/plant. Although the interbranch order is the sales order created for the customer, the intercompany order is created for the purchase order to the supplying branch/plant. The only differences between a direct ship order and an intercompany order are that the supplier number which is entered into the PO is that of the supplying warehouse or material-supplying branch/plant, the Sold to Address is the selling branch/plant, and the Ship to Address is the Customer Number.
In addition, the Intercompany order is created only after running the Shipment Confirmation. Interbranch orders are processed based on the Document Type and line type blend, which you set up for Interbranch orders.