Fulfillments

Kenandy generates fulfillment records when you confirm shipment of sales order lines. A fulfillment record inherits sales order line details, such as the product, quantity, unit price, extended price, UOM, currency, and payment terms. It also references the sales order number, sales order line number, sales order line status, and shipment line number.

You can manually create fulfillments for products or services that are not physically shipped; for example, a software download, or hardware maintenance. You skip the release and shipment process (allocate, pick, pack) when you mark an item as non-shippable and its related product is included on a sales order.

Kenandy generates customer invoices from fulfillments. You can use the Customer Invoice Batch process job to generate invoices automatically, or you can generate invoices on demand.

Invoice grouping rules provide flexibility in how you invoice customers. You can set criteria to define how you want to group fulfillments for invoicing, and determine the information to include in the invoices. You can invoice by customer, agreement, sales order, sales order type, shipment, category, and product. Currency, payment terms, and bill-to customer are implied, mandatory groupings. You must set up at least one invoice grouping rule.

The Process Fulfillments page enables you to locate and generate invoices on demand for fulfillments, place fulfillments on invoice hold, and release fulfillments from invoice hold.

You can view and lookup fulfillments associated with records on various pages in Kenandy, provided the Fulfillments related list is visible on the page layout:

Fulfillment Categories

You can specify by category how your product is fulfilled (shipment, installation, license key, and so on). You can use categories to facilitate integrations with 3rd party products. To learn more, see Categories.

About Fulfillment Dates

The Fulfillment Date field can be automatically populated from the sales order for the fulfillment, but you can change this default value. If this field is not automatically populated from the sales order, it is automatically populated from the invoice grouping rule applicable to the fulfillment.

For rental agreements and sales orders, the fulfillment date is inherited from the sales order line and it indicates the start of the rental period. You can change the fulfillment date after the shipment occurs. For example, if the product shipped on the first of the month, but the rental period starts on the third of the month, you can change the fulfillment date to reflect the third of the month.

When the fulfillment record status is set to Complete, it is ready for invoicing. This behavior is set with a workflow rule; if you want to change this behavior, deactivate the rule and create your own workflow rule. If you deselect the Invoice Ready checkbox for a fulfillment, the checkbox does not change unless you manually set it again, or set up another customer workflow rule to reset it.

 

 

 

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Version: Spring 2017