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ryan-schumacher
ryan-schumacher Member Posts: 4
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Does anyone have any good documentation on leadtimes and how they are associated to delivery dates on POs? I am not finding much help through Infor Docs.

We recently learned that some of our items ordered are defaulting the delivery date to the same day as the PO is issued, as well as instances of a month or more in the future. On most of our Purchasing Vendor records, we have the Leadtime set to 7 days, and on our Process Purchase Requests job, we set Default Delivery Days to 7. Admittedly, I do not know if this is good practice, but it is a required field for the Process Purchase Requests job and is just what has been done historically.

Additionally, we recently learned of the Inventory Leadtime Review in FSM. Reviewing the LPL, it appears that any change in Average Days of 0.5% triggers the Item Location record to Needs Review. What then is the proper way to "correct" these? Flip to System Calculates and change the Average Days number?

This appears to be a confusing topic for me, so I appreciate anyone who might be able to steer me in the right direction.

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  • jhedahl
    jhedahl Member Posts: 30

    A PO uses three conditions to derive a lead time. The first is if the item is inventoried or nonstock and its item location has a lead time entered. If no lead time has been entered there then it sees if the purchasing location has a lead time entered. If no lead time is entered there then it looks if the purchasing vendor has a lead time configured.

    If you're wanting to calculate lead times from the purchasing vendor, then you may start looking at the business class ItemLocation and PurchaseFromLocation to make sure the lead times there are blank.

  • ryan-schumacher
    ryan-schumacher Member Posts: 4
    https://community.infor.com/discussion/comment/67542#Comment_67542

    Thanks, Jhendahl! That information is helpful. I do have a couple of other follow-up questions, if you might have insight:

    1. To ask plainly, is Leadtime Days what calculates Early Delivery Date on a PO Line (e.g., Lead Time = 7 then Early Delivery Date is calculate as 7 days from date of creation), and how does Default Delivery Days factor into this calculation defaulting that you describe above when using the Process Pruchase Requests job?

    2. Do you manage the Item Location Leadtime Control as System Calculates (which then sometimes flips to Needs Review), or just keep it as Manually Entered?

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