Scheduling Customer Sales Orders
Scheduling Customer Sales Orders is a frequent topic for support inquiries. Industries such as manufacturing often receive single orders, which specify multiple future shipments at specified dates or intervals, and "drop dates" after which the order should be canceled if undelivered.
Big Business does not include any any tools directly designed for tracking:
• Multiple ship dates on a single customer order
• Drop dates, after which the order should be canceled
This Solution provides several suggestions which creative users have suggested for scheduling Sales Orders. (3562)
Sales Orders in Big Business include Line Item ETA dates, intended to provide an availability date for a given item:
• Today if it's in stock or not inventoried
• The ETA date from the Item Card, which is next ETA for open Purchase Orders
• Today plus Vendor ETA days as listed on the Vendor Card
Once you have assigned ETA dates to a Customer Order, you can seach for Open Orders with ETAs in a specific date range by using the Q&A tool:
1. From the InfoCenter toolbar, select the Q&A tool
2. Using the Toolbar popup to select Orders
3. Double-click the question,
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