Synchronize updates of the Requested ship and receipt dates on intercompany sales and purchase order lines.

In this blog post, I would like to talk through the intercompany feature that has been introduced in 10.0.37 release. 

Feature name: Synchronize updates of the Requested ship and receipt dates on intercompany sales and purchase order lines
Feature summary: This feature lets you control whether the requested ship and receipt dates are synchronized across intercompany sales and purchase order lines.
It adds new settings to both the "Purchase order policies" and "Sales order policies" tabs of the "Intercompany" setup page for customers and vendors.

I am going to use a few abbreviations throw-out the article. It means the following:  

IC PO - Intercompany Purchase order

IC SO - Intercompany Sales order

When this feature is disabled, then requested dates are synchronized in the intercompany flow.

For instance, you create IC PO and IC SO will be created automatically. When you update Requested receipt date on the IC PO, Requested ship date will be updated on the IC SO. The same happens in opposite scenario: you create IC SO and IC PO will be created automatically. When you update Requested ship date on the IC SO, Requested receipt date will be updated on the IC PO. 

When this feature is enabled, a new parameters will be displayed:

• Go to Accounts payable > Vendors > All vendors
• Select General tab on the Action pane
• Select Intercompany in the Set p section

On the Purchase order policies and Sales order policies, you will notice new parameter.

Name: Disable requested ship and receipt dates synchronization
Help text (Sales policy): Select the option to disable line-level synchronization of updates on Intercompany Sales order requested ship and receipt dates with Intercompany Purchase order requested ship and receipt dates.
Help text (Purchase policy): Select the option to disable line-level synchronization of updates on Intercompany Purchase order requested ship and receipt dates with Intercompany Sales order requested ship and receipt dates.

When parameters are disabled, nothing is changed. Requested dates synchronization will happen upon date changes on the line. 

When Disable requested ship and receipt dates synchronization is enabled only for purchase order policies, then when you update Requested receipt date on the IC PO, requested ship dates will not be updated on the IC SO. But IC PO dates will still be updated if you change requested ship dates on the IC SO, since Sales order policy parameter was not enabled. 

When you enable this parameter for both policies (Sales, Purchase) then no matter where you update the dates, it will not be synchronized. 

That's it!