My employer is in the process of evolving from a single facility to a multiple facility operation. A new challenge lies in getting the purchase orders to default with the correct address information on creation.
The purchase order generator is not in use and the purchasing team does not have plans to start using it so the mappings that are available in the purchase order generator map sites form are not applicable.
After research I discovered that the purchase order lines can default to the address on the Site when the shipping type of the shipping method is "Delivery". However, we have been running GP since 2004 and we have no vendor classes defined, none of the vendors have shipping methods associated with them, and none of the purchase order headers have been populated with shipping methods either. When this happens GP automatically defers to the default address code of the company and uses that in the absence of everything else. It is good that GP knows how to navigate this issue, but it does not match our usage since the primary company address will remain the same, but the majority of receipts will be processed at the new facility.
I tested the results of declaring a vendor with a default "Delivery" shipping method and it worked pretty well. The purchase order lines adopted the shipping method from the purchase order header and obediently fetched the Site addresses. However, now I have a new problem.
The company name in the Ship-to address is blank when the address is retrieved from the site under Standard-Delivery. This isn't the end of the world, but it causes the printed purchase order to look uneven and is pretty peculiar. An additional aspect of this scenario is that GP DOES NOT USE ADDRESS CODES IN THE SITE DEFINITION. This means that my end users will not be able to take advantage of previously entered company addresses and I suspect that it also has something to do with the disappearance of the company name.
Does anybody have any tips or leads into the cause and solution to getting the ship-to company name to render in the purchase order report when the shipping type is delivery and the address comes from the site?