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Dispatch Notes

You use this program to view details of dispatch notes for a sales order.

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Field Description
Options  
Change Company

View dispatch notes for a different company.

This applies only if multiple companies are sharing the same inventory files (Company Maintenance) and the program is accessed from the Inventory Query program.

You cannot select the Detail Lines or Query options when viewing dispatch notes for a different company.
Include  
Include Select this to selectively include orders according to a specific order status.
Functions These options are disabled when viewing dispatch notes for a different company.
Query Displays detailed information for the Dispatch Note (see Dispatch Note Query)
Detail Lines Displays detail lines for the highlighted dispatch note line (see Details Lines for Dispatch).

Listview columns

Column Description
Dispatch note Indicates the dispatch note number.
Customer Indicates the customer for whom the dispatch note was created.
Sales order Indicates sales order number from which the dispatch note was created.
Status

Indicates the dispatch note status. See Dispatch Note Statuses.
Customer purchase order Indicates the customer's purchase order number for the dispatch note.
Invoice Indicates the dispatch invoice for the dispatch note.

Dispatch invoices are not necessarily sequentially numbered according to ship date. A dispatch invoice can be generated today for a dispatch note with tomorrow's ship date and thereafter another dispatch note can be invoiced for today's ship date. The invoice number for tomorrow's ship date will then be before the invoice number for the dispatch invoice for today's ship date.
Planned delivery Indicates the date on which the dispatch is planned for delivery.
Actual delivery Indicates the date on which the dispatch was delivered.

Notes and warnings

Information filtering

  • If the program was accessed from the Inventory Query program, then you can only view details in Stock code sequence.

  • The Query and Detail Lines options are not available when viewing dispatch notes for a different company.

Maintenance considerations

  • The Start at and Options options are disabled when the program is accessed from the Inventory Query program.