Items - Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt

This field is used only for Purchased items.

Your vendors may have temporary problems meeting their lead times for certain items. To ensure that APS creates the planned order for this item with the appropriate lead time in this situation, enter the earliest date by which purchases of this item can arrive. All planned orders the system creates for this item will have due dates no earlier than this date. If the date is in the past, this field is ignored.

This date temporarily overrides the item's standard and expedited lead times (see “Defining Lead Time for APS Planning” on page 68 for more information). When APS creates a planned order for this item, it determines that the item can be received either by the current date + lead time or by this Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date, whichever is later.

This date overrides standard lead time only until the time between the current date and the Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date is within lead time (after which normal lead time planning resumes). This date overrides expedited lead time if the Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date is between the standard lead time and the expedited lead time. When that happens, it overrides the expedited lead time and becomes the effective expedited receipt date. After the earliest receipt date is within the expedited lead time, the normal expedited lead time will be used.

The system uses this date at the appropriate time (when a vendor lead time problem occurs); you do not need to "reset" the date when the lead time situation returns to normal. This option does not affect normal purchase orders already in the system. If you leave this field blank, the system assumes it is a date far in the past and ignores it. The time value used in this date comes from the Supply Time planning parameter.