I’m having a problem with the dates appearing on POs and can’t get my head around how to sort it. Example:
Item1 on sales order is set up as a purchased part. SO requested delivery date is 01 Feb 2010. Sales Order shipment date is 31 Jan 2010.
When I run the planning worksheet it suggests a purchase order for Item1 with a requested delivery date to my vendor of 01 Feb 10. The PO suggests I receive the goods AFTER I need to ship them!
How do I set a ‘safety lead time’ on purchases to get the item into my warehouse x-days before the shipment date?
You need to enter the value in ‘safety lead time’ in Item Card and your appropriate value will come in “Purchase Line” as “Planned Receipt Date”. I believe in the Purchase Header you might be getting “Requested Receipt Date” & “Promised Receipt Date” as BLANK.
The safety lead time is set to 2D, but the PO is still showing the wrong date. I DO have the Requested and Promised Receipt Dates in the Purchase Header as BLANK, but I’m starting to think that our PO is displaying the wrong date which might explain things a bit!
My Purchase Order item line has a ‘requested receipt date’ and a ‘planned receipt date’ of 28 Jan 10 but my printed PO shows ‘Del Date 01 Feb 10’!
After a bit of experimenting it looks like it’s the Expected Receipt Date which is appearing on the printed PO. I have queried our partner to clarify.
Another question about the same issue…
Item1 is on a sales order with a reqested delivery date of 22 Feb 10 and a shipment date of 19 Feb 10. SKU card has lead time for item of 4W. Safety lead time is 1W.
I’m expecting:
PO Requested Receipt Date to be 12 Feb 10. (19 Feb - 1W). I’m getting 10 Feb.
PO Order Date to be 15th Jan 10. (19 Feb - 4W - 1W) I’m getting 10 Feb again!
Inbound warehouse handling is blank. What else am I doing wrong?