RE: Due dates on Export orders

A concept we embraced when building our RPM software was to use 2 dates.
One date is the required ship date, the other is the date the end items
(order items) must be in shipping.  All order analysis is done off the
required ship date while all planning is done off the "in shipping" date.

Unfortunately we are an add-on to systems like System 21 (and others), used
to management materials and production so we can't help at order booking.
You'll have to look to the existing Systems 21 database to find the
appropriate columns.


Roy Luce
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-----Original Message-----
From: system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:system21-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Doug Griffin
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:26 AM
To: System 21 Users
Subject: Re: [SYSTEM21] 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
 > e-mail mailto:mike.newton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Web:
 > http://www.britax-pmg.com/
 > Britax PMG Limited. Bessingby Ind. Est. Bridlington, East Yorkshire.
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