This process allows you to generate documents that follow on from the allocation table.

Follow-on document generation allows you to have the system create documents (directly or in the background) for the following business transactions and events required as a result of the stock allocation process:

• Third-party orders placed by stores with an external vendor
• Flow of goods through the distribution center to the recipient (pure customers or sites)
• Allocations out of distribution center stock

You define which follow-on documents should be generated.

• You can generate the following follow-on documents for sites

• Purchase orders
• Stock transfer orders
• Sales orders and
• Deliveries.

• You can create sales orders as follow-on documents for customers.

You can select the criteria the system should use to generate separate documents. Line items in worklists are grouped together in purchase orders, warehouse orders or deliveries, depending on the Customizing settings you have made.

1. for a complete allocation table or
2. for individual items in an allocation table or
3. using a worklist and selection criteria.

2. You decide which worklist you want to work on - purchase orders placed with external vendors, warehouse orders, sales orders or deliveries.
3. In the case of deliveries, you define the selection parameters (such as the purchasing group, the distribution center and so on).
4. You select the line items for which documents are to be generated.
5. The system generates the follow-on documents and updates the allocation tables and worklists concerned.
6. You decide if you want to process further follow-on documents for the worklist selected. If you do, you return to step 4.