What does Automated Intercompany Drop Ship do

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

The Automated Intercompany Drop Ship is a feature in NetSuite that allows for the automatic routing of sales order line items either to an internal warehouse or a Dropship Purchase Order (DSPO) Vendor. This process can be triggered during the sales order creation and can also be modified after the order has been saved. The process works by marking items as drop ship items on the sales order. These items will then have an item fulfillment connected to both the sales order and the purchase order, regardless of whether they are being shipped from your location or not. This does not impact any on-hand inventory. In terms of automation, it is possible to create a script that automatically allocates line items to different DSPO vendors. This script would need to access the order, assign the vendor, and create the purchase order. However, it's important to note that while this process is not officially documented, it uses the same process that NetSuite uses when you manually create a Special Order or Drop Ship Item at the line level. If for some reason you must use the automatic process, then you can edit the sales order to be pending approval again, and then make the changes on the line of the sales order to make it a drop ship, and then reapprove the sales order, which will trigger the automatic drop ship again. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******