Anyone know offhand if it’s possible to have an intercompany SO/PO combination where the PO is for a different item than the SO? Or is it a hard requirement that the two transactions have the same item? Seems pretty clear that AUTO-GENERATED interco SOs will require that, but what if I just manually link an intercompany PO to an intercompany SO with different items on it? Technically possible? Terrible idea? Indictable offence? thoughts?

I think it's possible if you are manually making the SO and manually pairing it with the PO. However, I think the bigger issue you would face is the Accounts assigned to each item would need to align. So you would want to make sure the Intercompany COGS and Intercompany Income accounts were the same for each item(s) or else you will get a mismatch in your Elimination process Also test in Sandbox throughoughly.

okay that’s super helpful. Tack on top that it would have to be a manual process that they do frequently, when it could just be automated based on the PO creation, and this might just be a bad enough idea that it’s not even worth testing. 🙂 Thanks @AI1!

I'm not sure that the system will let you manually link POs and SOs. I didn't think it used to. That process is super locked down.

even better! (can you tell which way I’m trying to steer this discussion yet?)

We developed a script that would automatically create the Paired SO when the PO was created. However, ours always uses the same items on both