Distribution, Manufacturing, and Internet Modules

[MickeyW]

Details: Mas 200, 4.4.0.0 (3 days running now!)

ok, I hate asking things that seem should be simple... but it's been 10 long days getting to here today.

90% of our customers are ship & cancel.. no backorders. but the other 10% are creating havoc.

we need to have the items set for backorder for those few customers...

but the majority of the time, we have to ship, then go back and cancel the back orders. is there any means to flag a customer as no backorders?

[kvpierce]

Currently there is not a way to flag a customer as not allowing backorders, only items can be flagged as such.

[DFeller]

What about a flag on the customer level for "ship complete"?  Then use Advanced Scripting in 4.40 to add some checks for these?

Dawn

[MickeyW]

I was thinking along these lines as a 'backup' solution... Here is a few questions on that though...

Stock settings have shipping data entry forcing a line to be resolved... either fully shipped, or shipped + backorder all ordered qty.

If this is 'fixed/broken' by a script at the time it gets accepted, prior to printing, would there be any repercussions when updating the batch?

Mickey

[BigLouie]

With the new scripting ability in v4.40 you could create a UDF in Customer Maintenance for No Back Orders Allowed and then create and attached the script to the data entry lines and if there is a back order you could receive a message box that the customer does not allow back orders or something along those lines.  Steve demoed variations on this theme in his epic video, "Dive Deep!"  Check out the videos pegged to the top of forums.