Customer KANBAN Synchronization Data

Synchro maintains synchronization data for each item/delivery point and uses it as a common language between you and your customer to ensure that any discrepancies, including delivery advances and backorders, are acted upon.  Customer KANBAN uses the synchronization data as well, but updates it in a different manner.

Unlike Synchro, Customer KANBAN does not automatically generate shipping proposals.  Instead, the Customer KANBAN Order Maintenance conversation allows you to generate shipping proposals when needed, as well as allows you to manage advances and backorders.

When an advance occurs, a 'pseudo' Customer KANBAN order will be created which will be consumed at the next shipment.  A non-shipped order will continue to appear on the Customer KANBAN Order Maintenance Detail screen as awaiting shipment.  You can use the Synchronization Maintenance and Customer Status Inquiry conversations in Synchro to inquire on advance/backorder status.

Cumulative Quantity Due Shipped at End of Day

The cumulative quantity due shipped at end of day is equal to the shipment offset releases due during the day.  It corresponds to the value to be reached at the end of the day by the cumulative quantity shipped to be met to perfectly match the customer's requirements.

Transactions that increase or decrease this value include:

      Entering or acquiring a Customer KANBAN order if the shipping date is reached (increase)

      Executing the Synchro Daily Batch for orders are not locked and for which the shipping date has been reached (increase)

      Shipping in advance, which creates a 'pseudo' Customer KANBAN order (increase)

      Cancelling an existing Customer KANBAN order (decrease)

Cumulative Quantity Shipped

The cumulative quantity shipped is equal to the sum of the quantities shipped for the item/delivery point on the shipping lists that have a status of 'shipped'.

This value is increased when you ship an order through the Shipping List Maintenance conversation in Synchro.

Advance/Backorder

Transactions that increase or decrease this value include:

      Cancelling an existing Customer KANBAN order which has been locked by GABATCH and was booked or a pseudo Customer KANBAN order that was created in the case of an advance (increase)

      Acquiring or manually entering an order with a shipment date less than or equal to the process date (decrease)

      Locking an order (in batch) with a shipping date that has been reached (decrease)

      Shipping through Synchro (increase)

For more information about synchronization data, see the Synchro Synchronization Data topic.