Setting Fixed Backorder Days

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.

You can set the variable 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.

Use the Default B/O Days For Purchase Orderscontrol maintenance record to change the backorder days. Enter the number of days that the system adds to the receiving date for backorders. When items on a purchase order are backordered, the system looks first at the setting in the B/O Days field in Vendor Maintenance to determine how to handle the backorder. If the B/O Days field is blank, the system then looks at the setting in this control maintenance record. If it is not set, the system adds three (3) days.