To send an XML direct order to your vendor:A direct order is similar to a purchase order that you send to your vendor to request items for your warehouse to fill outstanding orders. However, using a direct order, you instruct the vendor to ship the ordered items directly to your customer, not to you.
The system transmits direct orders to vendors using XML when you set the print status on a direct sales order generation to 2 and select the Direct Order Submit transaction document. The direct sales order generation contains the items that you are acquiring from your vendor to fill the order. You can also send a direct order to your vendor using the Eclipse B2B Commerce screen in sales order entry if you are procuring items for an order and want to ship them directly to your customer.
Note: Before the system can send a direct order to a vendor, create an XML transaction map for a direct order transaction type that contains the ship-to and bill-to information for the order, set activity triggers, and define document post locations for the vendor.
When you send a direct order using XML, the system verifies that the vendor has a transaction map defined for an outbound direct order transaction type and archives the XML sent in Remote Archive Maintenance.
To send an XML direct order to your vendor:
Display an open order in Sales Order entry.
Display the order's Status screen and select the direct order generation you want to send.
In the Prt field for that generation, enter 2 for B2B Transmit.
Note: You can also send a direct order to your vendor using the Eclipse B2B Commerce screen in sales order entry if you are procuring items for an order and want to ship them directly to your customer.
Press Esc to exit the window, process the order, and send it to the vendor.
If prompted, select the Direct Order Submit document.
The system verifies that a valid XML transaction map exists for a purchase order for the trading partner and translates the Eclipse data using the settings in the map.
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