Expedite Notice Management

The expedite notice type codes indicate the type of expedite notice that will be maintained on a purchase order line.  Three types of expedite notices are system-defined.  Note that a leadtime may be defined for the last two types.

·     No expedite notice

·     Preventive expedite notice

·     Past-due expedite notice

When a purchase order line is created during Purchase Order Maintenance, the expedite notice type code and leadtime default values are retrieved from the item/vendor relationship.  Default values are retrieved from the Purchasing System Defaults category on the Reference File during item/vendor relationship creation maintenance.  These values can be manually overridden by the user.  Valid type codes are defined on the Reference File.

User-defined expedite notice types may also be entered on the Reference File to further split up the different processing steps.

These data are used to calculate an expedite notice date for a release.  This date is equal to the dock date plus or minus the expedite notice leadtime (depending on the expedite notice type code).  It is a sort criteria for the expedite notice status report, where the expedite notice type code is a selection criteria.

For example, given a dock date of February 10, 19XX, the preventive and past-due expedite notice dates would be calculated as shown below:

Expedite Notice Date Calculations

Considerations

The expedite notice date indicates to the buyer when he has to call the vendor to know if the vendor will be able to deliver goods on time (preventive) or why the delivery is already late (past-due).