Benchmark - Trigger cust invoice on vendor drop ship ASN

[Bob]

Title: vendor initiated purchase order

I would appreciate any feedback the EDI list members could give me on the scenario outlined below.

 

We are a distributor of hard goods to business customers.  A large portion of our orders come from our inventory for our customers as well as drop ship from our vendors.  Our systems do not generate invoices to our customers for drop ship orders until we receive and validate our vendor's invoice. 

 

There is a belief among some of business community members that we should not wait for a vendor invoice to generate the customer invoice, but instead generate an invoice to our customers when we receive an ASN from the drop ship vendor.

 

Are any of you folks doing this today?

 

Thanks,

 

Robert Paterson
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