Scenario: Expected Ship Date in the transaction line differs from the Ship Date in the Main Line.
Solution/Reason: The Expected Ship Date field becomes available when the Demand Planning feature is enabled. You may check SuiteAnswers ID 28004 to know more about Demand Planning. There are instances wherein Expected Ship Date is different from the Ship Date field in the main line. This is mainly caused by the availability of the item. Below is the behavior of the Expected Ship Date field:
- Expected Ship Date is based on allocated current inventory (today's date) or future supply (receipt date), whichever is the later.
- The Expected Ship date defaults to today's date if there are enough available quantities for the Item in the Sales Order.
- If there are not enough available quantities, but there are future supplies (e.g. PO), it will be considering the Expected Receipt Date in the transaction line of the PO.
- If there are no supplies, Expected Ship Date is today's date + ATP Lead Time. Note that ATP Lead Time is only available when the Available to Promise feature is enabled.
The Expected Ship Date is also considered in Calculating Item Demand Plan when the Projection Method is set to Sales Forecast. To know more about Calculating Item Demand, you may visit SuiteAnswers ID 27995.
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