James Are you sure you want to use stock dimensions for this.
When you create a purchase order from a sales order, the PO stock transactions are linked to the SO stock transactions by the field inventreftransid You can create exactly the same link by using Stock Marking. There is a document on the Axapta V3 release disk that explains this. Hope this helps --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "James Flavell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation such that a purchase is basically a blanket contract > (100,000 qty) with a fixed price per unit. > > Now the contract is only purchased when it is sold to the customer (so it is > partial invoices per contract) and when this happens there are additional > charges the supplier will add such as freight (in axapta this will be part > of the cost of the item). > > Now to get true back to back costs I must match up the sales invoice with > the correct purchase invoice but I can have several purchase invoice for the > same contract on the same day so basically I cannot rely on FIFO within the > scope of the contract. > > What I thought to do is to use one of the inventory dimensions such as > batchnumber which represents the salesorder so that this can give me back to > back costs (i.e. FIFO within the batchnumber). > > The problem is this batch number would be generated and assigned on the > sales side and needs to be taken over and assigned to the purchase side > automatically. > Has anyone done anything to achieve such a working? I know in reservation > the invenotry dimension will be taken from purcahse over to the sales > inventory transaction, where exactly does this happen and any ideas whether > it could be changed to send one of the dimensions the other way? > > Maybe I am going about things the wrong way??? Any other suggestions for > approaching this problem which I believe will exist for certain types of > businesses. > > Really hope someone can help me as I have come to a bit of a dead end on > this ... > > Thanks > James > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/kGEolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Sharing the knowledge on Axapta. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Axapta-Knowledge-Village/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/