See also: Generating and Receiving a Stock Order.
The Inter-System Ordering (ISO) process enables two or more separate businesses to trade with one another using electronic placing and receiving of orders, provided that they are all on a common Autoline system. It should not be confused with the Inter-company transfer process, because ISO has the following advantages:
In some installations, the supplying depot (Importer Management System) (IMS) may be linked to many Point-of-Sale companies (Dealer Management Systems or DMS). All the DMS sites might place all their orders onto the one IMS site.
The ISO order may be a stock order containing many part lines required for stock. This order is created/generated by the DMS and submitted to the IMS dealer.
The dealer (DMS) should create an order, either by:
manually creating the parts order in Purchase Control
After the DMS has created a stock order, submit the dealer order to the IMS site (the Supplier). (Click on this link for help on doing this.)
When the submission process is complete, the Transfer reference on the Submit Stock Orders form is populated with date, time, and login, of the user that transmitted the file. The system also creates an xml file in the xfer directory on the IMS server. The order is then processed by the IMS Importer site.
From the POINT OF SALE main menu, the IMS Importer Site (Supplier) should select Customer orders.
The SO CUSTOMER ORDER IMPORTS menu is displayed.
Select Receive customer orders.
Tip: You may need to press the TAB key to enable the Process button.
Click Process.
The software retrieves the xml file created from the DMS server. It converts this stock order into an ADP format, and creates entries in the order files of the IMS depot.
Load the WIP in Point-of-Sale by doing one of the following (a or b):
Tip: The quick option is b. If you do not want to deal with, and complete the WIP, for the moment, you can choose option a.
Select the Import dealer orders option from the SO CUSTOMER ORDER IMPORTS menu. This will create a WIP with the parts from the order. The WIP number can be found in the Imported orders log, accessed by selecting View import log file from the SO CUSTOMER ORDER IMPORTS menu. The WIP number is held in memory at this stage. (This allows the WIP to be loaded automatically in Point-of-Sale by clicking the Last... 
toolbar button.)
Select Links > Dealer Imports from the Parts Point-of-Sale form's menu bar. This loads the WIP with all the parts from the DMS stock order immediately.
Part lines where stock is available are set to P status, and, if there is no stock, the status is set to M and stock requires ordering.
When all lines to be shipped to the DMS dealer are set to P, print a delivery note.
Finally, to generate and export advice notes to the DMS dealer for processing, select Customer orders from the POINT OF SALE main menu.
The SO CUSTOMER ORDER IMPORTS Menu is displayed.
Select Export advice notes.
The Export Advice Notes form is displayed.
Click Process.
The advice note file, with all the details of the parts supplied from the IMS depot, is transmitted back to the DMS server, and the DMS (Dealer) is ready to receive the advice notes.
After supplier processing of the DMS dealer order, the DMS dealer should prepare as follows to receive the advice notes that have details of the parts supplied:
To receive advice notes:
From the Purchase Control menu, the DMS dealer should select Receive inter-system advice.
Note: If this option is not displayed, see Troubleshooting.
The Select MS Company form is displayed.
Select the MS Company Number 00 Global data, then click OK.
Note: It is assumed that users of a shared system are all using either Version 1 or Version 2, of Advice Notes. For depot-specific requirements in Advice Notes, the depot should refer to their own version of advice notes, if installed.
The Operator form is displayed.
Log in with the required POS operator id and password, then click OK.
The form for advice note and order processing is displayed.
Process the advice notes via the order processing form.
You are ready to receive the parts into stock.
Having processed the advice notes, the DMS dealer should receive the parts into stock as follows:
To receive parts into stock:
From the PURCHASE CONTROL main menu, select Receive/delete order, then click OK.
The Operator form is displayed.
Enter your Operator login, and Password if requested.
The Mass Receive/Delete Order [Stock Location] form is displayed.
Click Help for help on receiving the stock order into stock.