[SOLVED] Date Emphasis on Order Release

[kaki]

Hi,

I tried to create an order release with the pickup date 5 days earlier than today's date. Then the date emphasis on the constraint tab was set to "PAST". However, I could not generate any shipment from the order release. I checked the help file, by setting the date emphasis to "PAST" we should be able to put the delivery date to past date, however, that doesn't seems to be the case. Would someone pls enlighten me on any setup or configuration that can resolve this issue? Thanks for your help!

Note: If I set the date emphasis to "NONE" then I have not issue to generate the shipment.

[AlejandroBarba]

Re: Date Emphasis on Order Release

Hi Kaki,

Since the option NONE does not take into consideration the dates; I am lead to think that the problem may be that the required transit time for this shipment is longer that what the Pick Up date and the Delivery date would allow for in the Order Release.

Have you checked if the Late Pick Up and the Late Delivery dates are consistent? You could use the Time/Distance Query in the Ask G-log bar to validate what would be the transit time.

Hope this helps,

Alejandro Barba

[bmj_23]

Re: Date Emphasis on Order Release

What is the final error piece of text in the log file during the rate service part of the build shipment proces ?

When the date emphasis is set to PAST:

Early Pickup date = current + configurable amount that is controlled by the planning parameter MIN BUNDLING TIME WINDOW AFTER CURRENT TIME
Late Pickup: current + 1 year into the future

So, the earliest / latest pickup dates and times on the order release should be ignored with the date emphasis set that way.

Just out of interest, why are you trying to build shipments in the past ? Whats the business logic for wanting to do that ?

[kaki]

Re: Date Emphasis on Order Release

What is the final error piece of text in the log file during the rate service part of the build shipment proces ?

When the date emphasis is set to PAST:

Early Pickup date = current + configurable amount that is controlled by the planning parameter MIN BUNDLING TIME WINDOW AFTER CURRENT TIME
Late Pickup: current + 1 year into the future

So, the earliest / latest pickup dates and times on the order release should be ignored with the date emphasis set that way.

Just out of interest, why are you trying to build shipments in the past ? Whats the business logic for wanting to do that ?

It is part of the business requirements to build shipments in the past. Their reasons for this is that they may handle an order and forgot to enter that into sys. (do note that we still have the legacy sys. running), so they wanted to have this capability. Although, by setting the date emphasis to "past" should allows past shipment since OTM can + or - 1 year from the pickup date (based on the help explanation) to do planning. However, it just won't work to build the shipment when set to "Past". However, It do works when setting to "NONE" or "DELV". Do what puzzles me was that the help file does mentioned that it allows this to happens (setting to "Past"), but in reality it does not.

[AlejandroBarba]

Re: Date Emphasis on Order Release

Hi Kaki,

We have a scenario where we receive return shipment information once they are delivered and processed at our DCs so they are in the past. We do not plan these shipments so we have an integration point; we set up the order release emphasis to Past and have an Automation Agent that rates them.

If you want to have shipments in the past you may want to consider importing them as an XML instead of planning them (if they do not involve cross docks or pools which are very complicated to import as XMLs).

Hope this helps,

Alejandro Barba

[ianlo]

Re: Date Emphasis on Order Release

Hi,

I tried to create an order release with the pickup date 5 days earlier than today's date. Then the date emphasis on the constraint tab was set to "PAST". However, I could not generate any shipment from the order release. I checked the help file, by setting the date emphasis to "PAST" we should be able to put the delivery date to past date, however, that doesn't seems to be the case. Would someone pls enlighten me on any setup or configuration that can resolve this issue? Thanks for your help!

Note: If I set the date emphasis to "NONE" then I have not issue to generate the shipment.

Hi Kaki,

I have noticed this problem as well. And I realised that BOTH the pickup date and delivery date must be in the PAST before the shipment can be planned with the date emphasis "PAST" (i am using 5.5 CU3)

If only one of the dates is in the past, your best bet is to use date emphasis NONE.

I have a similiar business requirement as you have in that my users are also doing post execution updates and generation of sell shipments. Hence having an agent to set the date empahsis to NONE automatically did the trick for me.

Hope this helps!

Ian