Date Required, Earliest Receipt & Cancellation Date Details

The following table outlines how the Date Required, Earliest Receipt Date and Cancellation Date fields are used in PointForce Enterprise (PFE) with Order Management (OM) and without OM:

PFE (regular) PFE with Order Management
Required Date:
The Required Date defines the date that the customer requires the products. This date passed to the Required Date field at the product line level.

When Schedule Orders for Printing (OE32) or Auto-Print Processor (OE33) is run, the Required Date on each product line dictates whether or not the order should be scheduled. If all of the lines are future dated, the order will not schedule. The 'To Ship' and 'Backorder' quantities for the product line are set to zero.

You can update the Required Date for each product line independently of the header Required Date using the More Details functionality on the OE30/Lines folder.

Modifying the header Required Date allows you the opportunity to update all existing product line Required Dates or just the header Required Date.

Note: All orders will schedule (barring any order holds or un-preauthorized EFT payments) unless the entire order is future dated. Future order lines are released once the lines are no longer deemed to be future dated by executing the Release Future Orders (OE64) program. For more information on OE64, click here.

The Required Date defines the date that the customer requires the product. This date (combined with other OM parameters) is used to determine when the order is to be released for scheduling and printing.

The header Required Date is passed to the Required Date at the product line level.

You cannot update the Required Date for the product line(s). The Required Date field in the More Details Data window is not accessible.

Modifying the header Required Date automatically updates all of the product lines.

Controlling your orders with Order Management does not use the Future Order functionality. All order lines on the OE30/Lines folder always display the appropriate 'To Ship' and 'Backorder' quantities prior to allocation.

Stock is allocated to the product lines through the Manual Allocation Override (OM30) program, and scheduled and printed through the Schedule/Print Orders (OM33) program.
Earliest Receipt Date:
The Earliest Receipt Date is for information purposes only. The Earliest Receipt Date is used to determine the earliest date that the customer will accept receipt of the product. Orders with an Earliest Receipt Date less than the calculated Required Date (in OM30) will be eligible for scheduling and printing (in OM33) if the product is allocated to stock.
Cancellation Date:
The Cancellation Date is for information purposes only. If the order is past the entered Cancellation Date, then the order will still schedule and print (barring any holds) The Cancellation Date is used to prevent orders from being scheduled and printed (through OM33) once the Cancellation Date has been reached. The Cancellation Alert Days field in the Maintain Sales Office/Whse Number (CC96) program is used in conjunction with the Cancellation Date. For more information on the Cancellation Alert Days, click here.