Use this program to update the back-ordered quantities on sales orders, warehouse transfers and back orders to committed quantities and to provide a report of what is updated. The report prints as the update occurs.
You can select whether to include sales orders only, transfers only or both when the report is run. You also have the option to print the pick tickets, packing slips and transfer tickets for the transfers that had back-ordered quantities committed.
As orders and invoices are entered, some line-items have back-ordered amounts, usually because a customer order an amount greater than the quantity available. In time, another shipment of the back-ordered item arrives at the user’s company. Some of this new stock may be partially committed from special orders that were imported to create purchase orders; however, the rest of the quantity is available. Since the quantity is available, it can once again be committed by new orders and invoices, leaving none left over to fill back-orders.
To avoid leaving back-ordered quantities on permanent back order, the system allows the user to run this program. This program checks orders and back orders for back-ordered amounts. The program does not check invoices, printed or confirmed orders, quotes, counter sales, etc. Sales orders and back orders for customers on hold are not checked for back-ordered amounts. If the program finds back-ordered amounts, it then looks to see if the item has any quantity that is available. If there is enough of the item available to fill the entire back-order quantity and leave at least one in stock, the system automatically commits the quantity and sets the back-ordered amount to zero. For serial or lot number items, the system does not commit the back-ordered amounts if the OE Serial/Lot Number Entry flag in the Sales Orders Static Control Record is set to Y.
Commit Backordered Quantities processing also checks for conflicts with the Buyers Control Center (BCC). If tied orders exist in the BCC or the Override check box is selected for the BCC line, the commit quantity will not be committed by running this report. At the end of the report, a new section lists all orders which would have been committed but had a conflict with the BCC. Detail information is provided so that the conflicting line(s) in the BCC can be addressed as needed.
Infor recommends that you run this program after running the purchase order Receipt Register, after entering adjustments in inventory control, or after a large amount of line-items have been deleted or voided. If there are a large number of orders and invoices in the system, this program may take some time to run.
Report information includes order number, order type and status, requested date, warehouse code, customer number and name, item number and description, and the amount committed and its corresponding unit of measure.
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