Due dates on Export orders

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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