Customer Order Number

[JACEK1]

Hello again,

When I started working on a certificate, some doubt crept into my mind. There are two order numbers:

Customer Order Number and Order Number.

When I checked Customer Order Number for meaning, the Internet displayed both Customer Commission Number and Customer Serial Number.

I have contrasted Order Number with Customer Order Number on purpose because I would like you to know what I want to ask you about.

It follows from the text above that Customer Order Number is very ambiguous in meaning and can mean either Customer Commission Number or Customer Serial Number.

Could someone help me to disambiguate the true meaning?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Cool! I've never disambiguated before!

- An order is a request for goods or services.

- A commission is a request for a job making or doing something. It's is usually less specific and more conceptual than an order: The company was commissioned to build a battleship. She got the commission to carve the ice sculptures.

- A serial number is a code consisting of a string digits and sometimes letters that identify an individual item. So no two identical items have the same serial number.

 

[JACEK1]

I still don't know what exactly customer order number means in this case.

Is it about your hyphen 1?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The customer order number and the order number sound like the same thing to me.

Is there any reason to think they're two different things?

 

[JACEK1]

I don't know. The only thing I know is that both customer order number and order number are mentioned in the same certificate.

 

[Rover_KE]

They sound like they're the same thing to me, too.

 

[JACEK1]

I would not bother you with similar phrases if it were not for the fact that numbers that accompany them are different. Here is the rub.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

When one company needs to purchase goods and/or services from another company, the purchaser wants to keep a record:
-What exactly is being purchased?
-Who are we buying it from?
-What is it for?
-Who authorized this?
-etc.
A ledger of such purchases is kept, and a control number is assigned. This is the Customer Order Number, also sometimes called a Purchase Order Number. Most companies will not pay an invoice without a P.O. number.

When another company orders goods and/or services from my company, my company needs to keep track of this order:
-What is the name of the other company?
-What do they want?
-How much are we charging them?
-Who is earning a commission on this sale?
-etc.
A ledger of such sales is kept, and a control number is assigned. This is the Order Number (our internal order number).

 

[Tdol]

I would not bother you with similar phrases if it were not for the fact that numbers that accompany them are different. Here is the rub.

I wonder whether the first could be public and the second internal.