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In the fishing area this is a real 'must-have'. We use the batch attributes to store the quality result and and also the where the fish is caught, which method is used and by what vessel. Fish is sold to our production plants and our wholesale companies, using intercompany orders. So synchronizing woulb be a big advantage, instead of using spreadsheets to copy the attributes.
Its very strange that this is not part of the standard product yet.
When an error is made (PO receipt by accident), its crazy what you have to do to fix this. Even create credits and add new lines or increase qty of the SO/PO lines. Its creating all kind of incorrect customer and vendor data.
I also like your nice to have idea and I think this must be part of this solution as this really would make working in the system better.
Something terrible seems to have happened with version 21 related to this and I cannot find any documentation in the Microsoft release notes. Prior to upgrading at the beginning of November, we were able to ship non-inventory items and they printed on the packing slip. Since the upgrade this is no longer working.
Scenario: We have wooden boxes we use to ship very heavy material. These wooden boxes are non-inventory items but do have a sales price. Because these boxes are no longer printing a quantity on the packing slip (posted sales shipment), customers cannot correctly finish their AP 3-way match. In other words, their PO does not match the receipt (packing slip) and does not match the invoice we send them.
We found that when we invoice the sales order, the non-inventory items are automatically posted as shipped and get included on the invoice. Our only option at this point is to ship the product (we use Lanham E-Ship), then go to the sales order and post the shipment for the non-inventory boxes, then go to the posted sales shipments to print the packing slip, then include two packing slips (one for the inventory items and one for the non-inventory items).
Please, please, please... correct this.