Is anybody using Capable to Promise (CTP) in conjunction with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?
Anybody?
I don’t have a follow up question, I just want to know if this is something other companys do, or have tried, or might be considering?
My company has been very into this idea of responding to EDI order requests with highly accurate fulfillment dates.
With all the documentation I’ve read, it seems like a glossed over feature.
Epicor CAN check each EDI release date, and update it (automatically) if it can’t be met, based on inventory and resource capacity. Which I think is really cool!
My worry is this may be a half-baked feature and maybe nobody uses it? We’ve encountered at least one pitfall that would require a customization.
Just looking for any and all thoughts people have on this topic, thanks!
We do a fair amount of big-box EDI and thankfully this hasn’t become a requirement in that vein.
However, we have some ecomm accounts that are essentially on allocation and they’re handled “offline”…usually through their portal or a 3P service - where we provide “daily inventory availability”.
I said no follow up questions, but I have one follow up.
How do you provide the daily inventory availability? Are people typing values into these portals? Or maybe uploading an excel export that came from Epicor? Thanks again!
Usually a fixed daily template (i.e. customer X gets 10 units of part Y) that’s updated via scheduler. Most have the ability to maintain the template within their portal OR upload a new one manually.
If a part’s temporarily out of stock, the template’s usually just updated to 0.
