Shipping Lead Time

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I am curious how others handle shipping lead times from job due date.

Job is due on the 15th, sales sees this and enters the 15th as the Ship By date. For our business we can’t or don’t operate that way, our shipping team needs time to build a load. The order is not enough to fill a truck so we have to pair it with something, this takes time to review the region it’s shipping to, other loads going that way, do they have room/available weight on that shipment etc etc.

How/where would you go about adding time for this ‘load building’? My opinion currently is that shipping shouldn’t be looking at future supply and planning loads around that, we have lots of other orders/inventory that we can ship and they should do that. Once product is produced and hits inventory, it gets allocated to open orders, once an order is allocated shipping should see it and then start load building.

We have begun to add ‘Receive Time’ to all mfg products, this sets the job due date an extra 3 days out to ‘trick’ sales into thinking it won’t be ready till that date. Really it will come out of production and into inventory a few days earlier and now shipping has time to load build. I don’t think this is necessarily the correct way to do things, seems like a workaround but the only other lead time field i see is for purchased parts and for transferring lead time.

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I agree that receive time doesn’t seem strictly correct, but I don’t think a more to the letter appropriate method exists out of the box.

We use receive time here for this purpose, basically anywhere we want to put a buffer of days between when the job is due and the thing is needed.

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The Customer Shipto table has a field ‘Delivery Days’.

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Delivery Days interacts with the Need By and Ship by dates.

You can input a Need By date on an order, and based on the delivery days value on the ship to for the order, the system will automatically back up the Ship By date, so you can ship it so it arrives by the need by date.

This functionality used to only exist in the EDI space but they expanded it to all orders in a recent release.

I believe @DKehler is looking for some type of ‘Shipping Pick Days’ setting.