About National Drop Ship Routes
The only parameter in DDMS that applies specifically to the national drop ship feature is the National Drop Ship Route field in the (LA) Customer and A/R Parameters screen. This parameter lets you specify a unique national drop ship route. This route helps distinguish national drop ship orders from your regular orders. The route you specify also acts as the default for all your national drop ship orders. It's important to know that it overrides the Route you set up for the customer in the Customer Master tab and causes all national drop ship orders to flush together when sorted by route.
National drop ship routes can play an important role in the following:
Short Buys: If you use the automated short-buy feature, you can separate your national drop ship orders by excluding the route from orders you are not drop shipping. In this case, DDMS does not include this particular route when it runs your automated short-buy. If you don't intend to use the automated short-buy, you can also use the route when running your regular short-buy. You do this by creating a Short-Buy Report which lets you limit by the national drop ship route you created. When purchasing, you run this short-buy first and create your national drop ship purchase order. Then you can run your short-buy for the orders you are not national drop shipping.
Sort by Route: If you use a consistent national drop ship route code, you can sort by route when you flush or batch print your invoices. Since you're not delivering an item to the customer, you don't want national drop ship tickets mixed in with the orders you are not national drop shipping. Because they’re all together, it makes it easy to separate the national drop ship tickets so you can send a copy to the customer.
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