Hi,
I have some doubts about the usage of planned date in supplier shipments.
With some testing (and reading the code) I got the following conclusions
about planned date (which is expect somebody to correct me if anything
is wrong):
- The planned date field is used mainly to compute *forecast* quantity
of products.
- When the move is done, the planned date it's only used for statistical
reasons, as effective date is always used to compute the quantities.
- If a move is related to a shipment, the planned date of the move is
managed on the shipment, so if you want to change the planned date of a
move you must modify the date of the shipment, and it updates the
planned date of the draft moves.
The second point, works on customer shipments, customer return shipments
and for supplier return shipments but not in all cases in the supplier
shipments. I have found the following cases:
1. If create a supplier shipment with planned date all the unplanned
moves (planned date field is blank), doesn't get planned (planned date
is still blank on moves, but not on shipment). Why a unplanned move can
not be re planned?
2. If you update the planned date of a supplier shipment the planned
date is not updated for those moves that the current planned date is
*after* the planned date of the shipment. The move's planned date is the
same as before planning the shipment. So how can I reflect that the
supplier told me that the move will be received before the original
expected date?
3. If you create a unplanned shipment (planned date of shipment is
blank), all the currently planned dates get blank so you got to point 1
and you can not replan all the moves. Also all the statistical data is
lost, as planned date is updated to blank.
So currently, the planned date on the supplier shipment can only be
modified to a worse date (a date in the future or an unknown date). Why
are the supplier shipments working in a different way and with all this
restrictions?
Extra point:
On the supplier shipments you usually select existing moves (which may
have planned dates) so why not computing the shipment planned date (if
the user doesn't enter one) based on the worst date of the shipment and
then replaning all the moves which have planned date?
Thanks in advance.
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Sergi Almacellas Abellana
www.koolpi.com
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