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Intercompany - Purchase Order without customer Order

  • May 12, 2026
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Sidekick (Customer)

Hallo

Can somebody help me.

We have purchase orders from one site to another (two different companies) and everything is set up for intercompany but if I release a purchase order without having a customer order it does not transfer the order via intercompany. The demand code is “inventory order” and I can not change that. If I start with a customer order everything works perfect. But if I order parts into stock it doesn’t open up an order on the supplier site :-(. 

Does anybody has an idea what is missing? 

Thanks for your help.

Judith

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    Sidekick (Employee)
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    • VihanW
    • Sidekick (Employee)
    • May 22, 2026

    Hi ​@WHGJTAPLEY,

    As I understood, your requirement is to run an intercompany flow to move goods from one company site to another without an external customer order. If yes, then for this scenario, the Distribution Order concept is what is used in IFS.

    With the same intercompany setup, you can create a distribution order referring to the demand site and when a distribution order is released, a released customer order line is created on the supply site and a released purchase order line is created on the demand site. The customer orders and purchase orders enable the use of the same reservation, shipment, and receipt processes for the distribution orders as the customer orders and purchase orders respectively. The reservation, shipment, and receipt processes can be reached from the distribution order.

    Thanks,

    Vihan

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