Re: Due dates on Export orders

I had a client who did something similar.  It drove them crazy.  There's 
  a place for this time, move days, sumthin.  help me out folks!

Mike Newton wrote:

 > We are a 50:50 split home/export business and our export sales people
 > are in the habit of entering due dates on order lines 2 to 3 weeks in
 > advance of actual ship date. They do this to ensure availability of
 > goods for export packing and consolidation, document preparation etc.
 > This is fair enough as it raises demand on production and suppliers
 > early as required, but order book analysis based on order line due
 > date and values is correspondingly over stated which makes predicting
 > period end total shipment values a bit difficult.
 >
 > Anybody out there doing things differently to achieve the same ends?
 >
 > Mike Newton - Logistics Director
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