A Blanket Order is used when a customer purchases a product based on a contract for the purchase of a specific amount and quantity over a specified period of time. This recipe provides the details of Blanket Orders.
You should set up the Processing Options of the P4210 application in order to set up the Blanket Order application.
A Blanket Order can be entered with one line with a requested date, and on the basis of this agreement you can create the sales orders for limited quantities of the Blanket Order. The Sales Order can be entered directly to subtract the quantity from the Blanket Order, or release the quantity from the Blanket Order. The Blanket Order can be reviewed with the original quantity and released orders, along with the open quantity. If you set up the P4210 program commitment Processing Option on the Commitment tab, the system does not commit the item quantity in the inventory program when the Blanket Order is created. The blanket orde r will be created with the same procedure as the Sales Order.
Specify correct values in these Processing Options of the P4210 program in order to create the Blanket Order contract.