Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation provides parameters at various levels to ensure that you have the controls you need to schedule or not to schedule an order or order line for shipment until a specific time.
This is an order line level control - the order line status should be configured as an available status for the scheduling transaction.
This control is used to ensure that future orders are not scheduled too much in advance and thus prevent blocking of available inventory for current or ASAP orders.
The earliest date when an order line can be scheduled is calculated as follows:
Given the following scenario, the earliest schedule date is calculated as indicated in the following table.
Your parameters are set as
If requested ship date is... | the earliest schedule date is calculated as... |
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July 15th 2003 | July 5th 2003 and the order is not scheduled until that time. |
June 30th 2003 | June 29th 2003 and the order is ready for scheduling from this control's perspective. |
not specified but a requested delivery date is specified as July 15th, 2003 and the initial transit time was calculated as 3 days | July 2nd 2003. This is because the "ship date" is calculated as July 12th 2003 and hence the July 2nd calculation. |
not specified and no requested delivery date is specified | June 29th, 2003. |
In each of these instances, order lines are considered for scheduling only after the date calculated. If you want to schedule your order lines as soon as they are created, you should set the maximum scheduling days to a high value such as 999.