The Late Supply screen is used to track sales order line items that are dependent on late supply from jobs and purchase orders. The screen enables direct updating of line item Expected Ship dates to reflect likely ship dates based on feedback from production, purchasing, and MRP.
Provides feedback from production
The production department maintains the Job Finish date against released jobs in the Job Schedule screen, which reflects an assessment of when the job is likely to be finished. When a job has dependent sales order line items (where the Job Finish date is past the line item Required Date), those sales order line items are listed in the Late Supply screen on the Jobs tab.
Provides feedback from purchasing
The purchasing department maintains the Expected Receipt date against PO lines in the PO Schedule screen, which reflects when the purchased item is likely to be received. When a PO line has dependent sales order line items (where the Expected Receipt date is past the line item Required Date), those sales order line items are listed in the Late Supply screen on the POs tab.
Provides stocking item feedback from MRP
After each MRP session the Late Supply screen can be filtered for New status jobs that supply Stocking order policy line items. Any such sales order line items are not fully covered by stock on hand and will be shipped late.
Enables direct updating of Expected Ship dates
The Late Supply screen enables direct updating of sales order line item Expected Ship dates to reflect feedback from production, purchasing, and MRP and to provide communication dates for customers.
NOTE: Unlike the line item Required Date, which is an internal target date that remains fixed because of its effect on MRP and job and picking priority, the line item Expected Ship date is an external date for customer communications and can be freely changed as needed.
SO lines not listed are supplied on time
The Late Supply screen is an exception screen that only lists sales order lines that are dependent on late supply from jobs or purchase orders. All other sales order lines are supplied on time and their Expected Ship dates can be left as is.
