In the case of non-drop ship items, the ‘create PO’ field will be greyed out as per standard NetSuite behavior in the Edit mode of the Sales Order. The ability to create PO in Edit mode is an enhancement in the voting stage [Enhancement ID: 301319].
However, after a Sales Order is created and approved, a hyperlink appears in the create PO field in the View mode of the Sales Order.
NetSuite allows the flexibility of creating an on-the-fly Drop Shipment for inventory items not tagged for Drop Ship. This is helpful for users who normally source their items from their warehouse but may need to create a drop ship on specific sales orders.
On clicking the drop-ship hyperlink, we will be redirected to the Standard Drop-ship Purchase Order creation page with details automatically filled in similar to drop-ship PO. We can save this PO and the #PO will appear in the Create PO field in the Sales Order. The related records will show the PO with the link type ‘Drop shipment’.
When we click the drop-ship option for a particular item line, all the items with the same PO vendor will appear on the PO creation page. Hence, we can create a common PO for items with the same PO vendor.
However, if there are different PO vendors for different item lines, a separate PO has to be created using the drop-ship hyperlink.
Since the Sales Order was already approved, the SO from which the PO has been created will show the status ‘Pending Fulfillment’ and will not show the ‘Pending Approval’ status again.