Hi All,
As part of 3rd party drop shipment process(SO to PR to PO process), we have the need to communicate to initial shipping party (purchase order vendor) and through the delivery idoc message also the final ship-to delivery address as available in corresponding sales order.
In the case of Internal vendors in the Drop ship process the Replenishment Outbound delivery would have the internal customer CXXXX as ship to party setup for the receiving plant XXXX . On saving the document we would get the Delivery IDOC triggered to the 3PL with ship to party as CXXXX.
In the real scenario 3PL is the Shipper who would move the products to the end customer. Since the end Ship to party is not known to the Shipper we have lots of manual communication work involved to identify the Ship the party.
Each time the 3PL providers gets an IDoc he in turn calls the Business to find whom to ship the Consignment.
My Question: I need to pull the Ship to party in the sales order and propose the same in the PO while it is being created. If I can propose the Ship to party as an partner function(Logic to create vendors matching the Ship to party's are done) I would then have the liberty to get them flow in to the Rep Outbound delivery from which the EDI flows to the Shipper.
Please assist me with some User Exits to Pull the Ship to party from Sales Order while creation or saving of the Purchase Order.
Thanks,
Jeff