Ship Delivery Time Window

You can use a new Ship Delivery Time Maintenance (5.5.1.3) program to set up ship delivery time windows. Use the program to define ship delivery time (SDT) codes and associate one or more delivery times with them. SDT codes specify exact delivery times on supplier shipping schedules. Daily item requirements are divided into hour and minute buckets based on these delivery times.

Note: SDT codes are not used on supplier planning schedules. You can specify an interval code, as needed.

You associate SDT codes with individual scheduled orders to avoid having to manually enter delivery times on supplier shipping schedules. The sum of allocation percentages across the defined time windows must add up to 100%.

Example: A scheduled order line has a time window for two deliveries per day, one at 10am and another at 2pm. You want a larger percentage for the morning delivery, so you set the first time window for 10:00, then allocate 70% for it. You set a second time window for 14:00, and allocate 30% for that window.

In some cases, fixed allocation percentages are not sufficient, so you can create and specify a custom allocation calculation program in the SDT Calculation Program field in Supplier Time Window Maintenance.

Note: QAD Enterprise Edition includes the rscalc1.p custom program that you can reference as an example of how to write your own custom program.

When you create the SDT code by specifying time windows and allocating delivery percentages, you can also create the custom program, defined as part of the SDT code.

The custom program determines the actual times and percentages used in Schedule Update from MRP to create the supplier shipping schedules.

You can set default SDT codes in Supplier Controls Maintenance (5.5.1.6) and associate them with individual suppliers. The SDT code you set defaults to Supplier Scheduled Order Maintenance headers (5.5.1.13) for orders that match the supplier. In the Ship Delivery Data frame of Scheduled Order Maintenance, you can enter an SDT code or accept the default at the header level. You can change the code at the line level in Supplier Scheduled Order Maintenance.

Schedule Update from MRP (5.5.3.1) uses the delivery times associated with SDT codes on scheduled orders to bucket daily item requirements on supplier shipping schedules.

Use the View Order Ship Delivery Time browse collection (.NET UI only) to view the SDT time codes that MRP used for orders and order lines. A supporting browse displays the SDT code and percentages used by order number. You can drill down into a supporting browse that displays all scheduled order lines referencing the selected SDT code.