Consignment Parent Despatch Orders

Consignment parent despatch orders (CPDOs) are used when despatching materials in two stages. The CPDO is associated with a despatch to an intermediary location. The CPDO can only be invoiced if the contractual invoice type has no payment terms (that is, a proforma invoice can be created). The child despatch orders (CDOs) are loaded from the intermediary location and are invoiced separately.

The CDOs can only be loaded with the material that was delivered in their CPDO:

  • For discrete units, only the actual packages that were loaded on the CPDO can be selected for loading onto the CDOs.
  • For bulk material, the sum of the actual masses of the CDOs cannot exceed the actual mass of the CPDO.

CDOs for a CPDO can only be created via a contract. The CDOs of a CPDO can be created before or after the CPDO has been despatched. The consignment configuration can be done on the CPDO, or inherited from default configuration on the contract.

For organisations under credit control, the status of CDOs is inherited from the CPDO, and cannot be edited on the CDO.

Example: A customer has committed to purchasing 10 bags of copper concentrate each month for 3 months. The seller ships the entire order to the customer's warehouse in one despatch on consignment. The seller:

  1. Creates a despatch order (DO) for the sales contract and configures the DO to be a CPDO.
  2. Creates a package group of 30 bags.
  3. Loads the package group onto a shipment and assigns the CPDO to the shipment.
  4. Creates a proforma invoice for the CPDO and locks the invoice. The proforma invoice has no payment terms.
  5. Unloads the package group and releases the bags from the package group at the warehouse.
  6. Creates 3 CDOs for the CPDO, each with a different planned despatch date.
  7. Despatches a CDO with 10 bags to the customer each month; either by creating a truck despatch in MineMarket, or by associating the discrete units directly with the CDO.
  8. Creates payable invoices for each CDO.

Control Passed

The configuration of delivery terms includes the conditions that must be met on despatches in order for control to pass from the seller to the buyer. See Delivery Terms.

If control has passed for all the CDOs, control has also passed for the CPDO.