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The invoice will contain
Date
Invoice number
Order number
Name and address of organisation
Name and address of customer
Stock codes of goods
Quantity of goods
Description of goods
Selling price
Payment terms
Basic Despatch Procedure
A customer places an order with the Sales department who will issue an invoice for the sales
transaction. This invoice will either be sent to despatch or directly to stores.
If the invoice is sent to despatch, despatch will complete a requisition which is sent to stores. As
soon as stores receive the requisition, the stock for the delivery is issued and sent to despatch
together with a copy of the requisition.
If the invoice is sent to stores directly, stores will complete a stock issue note based on the invoice
and send the goods with the stock issue note and the invoice to despatch.
As soon as despatch receives the goods, the invoice and the requisition/stock issue note, the order
must be prepared for delivery. This will usually take place very early in the morning as the delivery
vehicles have to be released for deliveries as early as possible.
Depending on the procedure in your organisation, it may be that you have to issue a delivery note
that is based on the invoice, or it may be that you use the actual invoice to control the loading of the
goods.
The goods have to be ticked off on the invoice or the delivery note as they are loaded in the vehicle.
When goods are being loaded, two people should confirm that the goods are what is stated on the
invoice/delivery note. This could be you and the driver of the vehicle or you and another employee.
You and the driver will work out the delivery route. You have one of two options for working out
delivery routes:
deliveries can start with the customer nearest to your store and end with the customer
furthest from your store, or
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