You can set a specific number of days that a vendor is normally allowed for backordered items. This variable, called B/O Days, is set in Vendor Maintenance. The B/O Days field determines how the system handles backordered purchase orders for this vendor.
For example, a vendor may guarantee to you that if any backordered items will be delivered within 14 days. You can set a variable so that the system does not consider the backordered items overdue until the 15th day.
If the B/O Days field is blank for a vendor, the system looks at the setting in the Default B/O Days For Purchase Orders control maintenance record.
You can set the variable in the B/O Days field and the control maintenance record in the following ways:
|
Setting |
Name |
Description |
|
C |
Cancel |
Cancels any backordered items from this vendor. |
|
# |
Number |
If there is a standard number of days the vendor guarantees that backordered items will be delivered, enter the number. In the above example, you would enter 14. |
|
R |
Review |
The exact date is not known for the vendor shipment of material. When material is backordered from such a vendor, the material appears on that generation of the purchase order without associated due dates. This populates the Review P/O Queue. |
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