RE: Ship Date Calculation

[Konrad Underkofler <kdunderk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bonnie,

It is only a one line fix but the routine is used
everywhere before the actual shipment, which naturally
has the real date. Since we have source I already
fixed detail entry, acknowledgements and pick lists.
It does help to let the customer and warehouse know
when we actually plan to ship stuff. I also fixed
available to promise since the ship lead is used there
as well and it can impact availability of low stock
items.

They claimed that the shipment date was never designed
to use the shipment calendar (?????). It actually does
use the shipment calendar but it does not respect weekends
or non-work days. Someone long ago thought erroneously
that to calculate a shipment date you run the number of
days back on the wall calendar and then find the nearest
prior business day rather than just running back the number of
business days. To the best of my knowledge I know of no
shipping company that would use that method. It is a shame
to since the fix is actually less work than what they are
doing now.

You can probably get it reopened if you want or more
customers want the calculation to be real world.

Regards

Konrad