When a customer is buying parts that you, in turn, purchase from another site, it is possible that the supply site delivers the parts directly to your end customer. This means that the parts never pass through your warehouse. This is performed with a customer order with supply code Int Purch Dir, or Purch Order Dir.
Once the supplier has made the delivery to the end customer, the supplier has the possibility to send you a direct delivery notification via MHS (DIRDEL message). By approving this message, the order line status will change to Arrived/Received/Closed and the external customer order line will get the status Delivered. Now it is possible to start to invoice the end customer. You can manually approve the messages or let the system automatically do that, if you have set the automatic approval for EDI/MHS messages on the supplier.
Note: If necessary, you can manually change the quantity delivered and the date delivered, if it should not be corrected on the message received.
The parts are delivered directly to your customer. The customer order is updated with the delivered quantity that has been reported and is ready for invoicing.