In many companies, a sales order must be received before a certain time of day in order for the sales order to be treated as if it is received that day. If the order is received after this deadline, the company treats the sales order as if it is received the next business day.
You set up order entry deadline times for all the days of the week in the form . If an order is received after this time, it will be treated as if it is received the next day. By default, these times are set to 23:59, that is, one minute to midnight at the end of the relevant day. You can change the default times so that they coincide with actual ship or receipt deadline times.
You can define order entry deadlines for a specific group of customers, for example if you want to allow a group of specific customers to have order entry deadlines later than the majority of your customers. First, you define order entry deadline groups in the form and then you assign the order entry deadline groups to customers in the form.
If your company consists of several sites, you can set up order entry deadlines per site. If the sites are located in different time zones, the order entry deadline is set up in the site time zone. However, when working with sales orders and sales quotations, the order entry deadline is converted to your time zone in the form.
You define allowed combinations of site and order entry deadline group in the form.
Example:
Order entry deadline
Suppose that today is Tuesday and the time is 17:00. If you set the order deadline to 16:00 on Tuesday and try to set the ship date as today's date (assuming zero lead time), you will get a warning that the date is invalid if the check box is selected. This warning will appear on the form on which you can choose alternative dates.
Example:
Different order entry deadline per site
Your company consists of two sites. The sites are located in two different time zones.
|
Site A |
Site B |
|---|---|
|
California |
Florida |
|
PST (Pacific Standard Time) |
EST (Eastern Standard Time) |
Site A and B have defined the following order entry deadlines.
|
Order entry deadlines |
PST |
Order entry deadlines |
EST |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Monday |
13:00 |
Monday |
14:00 |
|
Tuesday |
13:00 |
Tuesday |
14:00 |
|
Wednesday |
13:00 |
Wednesday |
14:00 |
|
Thursday |
13:00 |
Thursday |
14:00 |
|
Friday |
13:00 |
Friday |
14:00 |
You are the order processor and you are located in Utah where the time zone is MST (Mountain Standard Time).
This means that as long as you place orders with site A before MST 14:00 and with site B before MST 12:00, you meet the order entry deadlines for both sites.
The following table shows the order entry deadlines for site A and B converted to MST time.
|
Site A (PST) |
MST |
Site B (EST) |
MST |
|---|---|---|---|
|
13:00 |
14:00 |
14:00 |
12:00 |
Note
|
|---|
|
If daylight time adjustment is in effect, the order entry deadlines are adjusted accordingly. |
Example: Same
order entry deadline per site
Your company consists of two sites. The sites are located in two different time zones.
|
Site A |
Site B |
|---|---|
|
California |
Florida |
|
PST (Pacific Standard Time) |
EST (Eastern Standard Time) |
Site A and B have defined the following order entry deadlines.
|
Order entry deadlines |
PST and EST |
|---|---|
|
Monday |
13:00 |
|
Tuesday |
13:00 |
|
Wednesday |
13:00 |
|
Thursday |
13:00 |
|
Friday |
13:00 |
You are the order processor and you are located in Utah where the time zone is MST (Mountain Standard Time).
This means that as long as you place orders with site A before MST 14:00 and with site B before MST 11:00, you meet the order entry deadlines for both sites.
The following table shows the order entry deadlines for site A and B converted to MST time.
|
Site A (PST) |
Site A (MST) |
Site B (EST) |
Site B (MST) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
13:00 |
14:00 |
13:00 |
11:00 |
|
Note
|
|---|
|
If daylight time adjustment is in effect, the order entry deadlines are adjusted accordingly. |
