{"id":7,"date":"2008-06-25T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mibuso.com\/blogs\/alexchow\/2008\/06\/25\/where-do-you-put-the-customer-po-no\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T23:08:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T22:08:38","slug":"where-do-you-put-the-customer-po-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apcdynamics.com\/articles\/where-do-you-put-the-customer-po-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you put the Customer PO No.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dynamics NAV 5.0SP1, the caption for Your Reference has been changed to Customer PO No. For us, we&#8217;ve always used External Document No. to store\u00a0the Customer PO No. on the sales order.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that the change in 5.0 SP1 was done due to\u00a0partner requests. I just want to get your opinion on where you put the Customer PO No. when entering a sales order. 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