Sales Invoice Form

jungleboy

Dear All,

Can anyone tell me whether sales invoice and sales order are the same in terms of technical design?

A client of mine is thinking to integrate their heavily customised sales order (which is standalone) into Navision sales order so that accounts dept, warehouse dept could utilise the info from sales order for analysis, accounting and warehousing purpose.

The sales shipment will be on Navision which is perform by warehouse clerk. In fact all other departments are using Navision and sales department is using it for analysis purpose.

I don't have an idea whether to integrate their SO or their invoice into Navision. If I integrate into Navision sales invoice, this form does not provide goods shipment posting option.


Thank you

girish.joshi

From a data model standpoint, a sales order, and an unposted sales invoice are the same -- The are represented by the table.

Functionaly, they are fairly different.

I would caution you against doing analysis from sales orders/sales invoices/ or unposted documents in general, because they represent "works in progress". The data changes pretty frequently, and often doesn't really makes sense (until its finished).

Without knowing any more of the details, my idea would be to try to integrate into the sales order, and try to do analysis off the sales shipments, or posted invoices if at all possible.