RE: Order Cancel Date

["Shaw, Dave" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale,

Interesting idea. We could probably adapt it to what we need. Thanks!

Dave

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From: DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:11 PM
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Subject: Re: Order Cancel Date


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It may not be what you need, but my company needs to track shipments, and
then bill on delivery (SEC regulations).  How I handled that was that I
created an intransit warehouse (uncontrolled), and changed our shipment
process to transfer to the intransit warehouse (TW) when the units are
shipped, then when we get a confirmation of delivery, we then bill the
order.  I put the order# in the REFNO field, so I can track and report
shipments by order, showing shipment date, and then the billing occurs
when the entire order is confirmed delivered.

That may not work for you, but it works great for us.  Incidentally, after
we did that, we streamlined the billing process using the Offline Shipping
enhancement.

Dale @ Fleetwood





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We have customers, for example Wal-Mart, who place very large orders that
fill multiple trailers and take several days to ship. We need to be able
to
track 3 different due dates for these orders - the manufacturing due date
for completing the product, the shipment start date, and the cancel or
last
shipment date. Historically the company has entered the shipment start
date
into the Request date field, and the manufacturing due date into its
field.
The cancel date hasn't found a good home yet, but we need it to be able to
report whether shipments were made on time. Any thoughts on a good way to
handle this? Does anyone else have this kind of requirement? Thanks!

Dave Shaw
MAPICS-L Moderator
Rauch Industries, Inc.
Gastonia, NC