Your customer's order is placed. Now your supplier needs telling what to send and where.
Link the line to a supplier
Open the sales order and click the Dropshipment tab.
Click Link to PO.
Choose the supplier for each item.
Confirm.
Brahmin Solutions creates a purchase order for each supplier. Items from the same supplier go on one order, so you place one purchase with each rather than several.
What lands on the purchase order
Field | Comes from |
Ship to | your customer's address — this is where the goods go |
Bill from | your supplier |
Price | the supplier's price on their product association |
The ship-to is the important one. On a normal purchase order it is your warehouse. On a drop-ship order it is your customer, and that address is the instruction your supplier ships to.
Check it before you send the order. A wrong address here does not get caught by anyone in your warehouse, because it never goes near your warehouse.
The orders are created as drafts
Nothing is on order until you open each purchase order and confirm it. Confirm it, then send it to your supplier with Send or Print the way you would any other order.
If your customer's address changes
Change it on the sales order, and check every linked purchase order picked it up. Open each one from the Linked PO column and confirm the ship-to matches.
If the supplier has already shipped, changing the address does not recall the goods. Call them.
How to know it worked
The Linked PO column on the Dropshipment tab shows a purchase order number instead of —. Click it to open the order and check the address and price.