Life of a Sales Order
A Sales Order is sent in the form of an Outbound booking by the client, on behalf of their customer, to SEKO. The sales order then takes the following journey:
Create a billing reference in CargoWise (a shipping/logistics/financials system used by SEKO)
Send Sales Order to Warehouse
Update Purchase Order for work costs associated with the Sales Order
Warehouse picks, packs and dispatches information
Warehouse Dispatch Sales Order and send Push Notification to White Glove system
Process Dispatched Notification
Some information has to be entered manually onto White Glove system including
packaging details
confirmation of Purchase Order
Send “Pre-Alert” email to Final Mile Facility, which is known as a “White Glove Partner”. This includes
Information on the goods being received
Booking confirmation URL for White Glove Partner to schedule the work with the end customer
Purchase Order based on known information about the job
White Glove Partner to complete the work and give information on extra costs incurred
Send a revised Purchase Order for complete work
Sales Order Quantities
A booking can be made up of a set of parents each with or without child records, as shown below.
SKU Structure (ROOM Specific - SKU structure 1st generation)
Parent & Child
Parent SKU100 x 2 (2 meeting rooms)
Child SKU1 x 8 (4 walls each meeting room, 8 walls total)
Child SKU2 x 2 (1 roof each meeting room, 2 rooves total)
Child SKU3 x 12 (6 chairs each meeting room, 12 chairs total)
SKU Structure (Standard structure including ROOM 2nd generation)
Parent Only
Parent SKU3 x 3 (3 chairs)
White Glove SKU Processing
The White Glove system incorporates both the ROOM specific SKU structures with parent/child SKUs and the standard SKU structures with parent only SKUs (which have no concept of child SKUs).
Sending Quantities to the Warehouse
The warehouse has no concept of parent and child SKUs and only allows one of each SKU line and quantity. Duplicate SKUs are not allowed in a sales order so the quantities have to be consolidated across all the SKUs. Given the example in the booking structure above, the quantities sent to the warehouse should be as follows where the SKUs to be sent to the warehouse are shown in red:
8 x SKU1
2 x SKU2
15 x SKU3