Orders can be sent to you by your customer by a variety of transmission methods, including phone, EDI, fax, mail, email, and more. For each of these transmission methods that your customer used to submit orders into your firm, you may define a four-character identity key in SAP and generate statistics reports based on this information. This is one of the criteria an organization uses to assess the effectiveness of its investment in electronic ordering methods. The menu path is:
IMG ➢ Sales And Distribution ➢ Sales ➢ Sales Documents ➢ Sales Document Header ➢ Define Purchase Order Types
The customization page for choosing the purchase order type is depicted in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Defining Customer Order types