Assigning a Sales Order Number to a Purchase Order

Question

My company has a requirement that for every purchase order we need to identify what sales order was created to generate the PR.
I have found that by using the Account Assignment C - Sales Order, this opens the "Account Assignment" Tab and the fields for Sales order, item, and schedule Line.
I have saved the PO and now am trying to receive the parts into inventory.  When doing so, the inventory needs to post to our inventory GL account, in our case is 135075.  By NOT assigning the GL with the sales order in the PO it doesn't post to this account it posts to a different GL account.
How do I go about using the "Sales Order" field in the purchase order so I can record which sales order the line item of the PO corresponds to, and when receiving the inventory into stock have it post to the correct GL account?
Thanks,
Karen

Answer 1

The company I work for is a distributor, and doing a Make to Order order type would not be in the best business practice for our company.  We tend to purchase stock for multiple orders and put them in inventory to be sold.  We are looking for a way to "document" what sales order the purchase order line item is being bought for, and sometimes their our multiple lines.
I understand what you are saying regarding posting to an stock GL vs a consumption GL.
I am going to research further and see how we can post to a consumption GL and then move the remaining stock over to a stock GL account after we have sold what we have purchased and received.
I was able to get the receipt posted to the GL 135075 by taking off the "post automatically" indicator in the configuration of the GL account, but this then posed problems when doing other inventory postings such as cycle counting or moving inventory.
Thank you,
Karen