Overview
Through the Preferred due date, customers can let the Service know by what date they would like to receive each an ordered part.
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The date will be reflected Preferred due date is displayed in the order Order detail view so that the an order coordinator can use it to prioritize determine the urgency of each part, independent of when the an order was placed. This
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The Preferred due date can further be used as a reference by production planners to prioritize urgent parts while creating the final job schedule. The preferred due date is used to automatically assign an internal production target date to parts.
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Using the Preferred due date can be enabled in the admin panelscheduling jobs for printing. The date is therefore shown on the Parts view (column name “Due Date”).
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The Preferred due date serves only as information for Services. It has no impact on any of the automatically calculated dates such as Target date or Est. finish date. |
How to configure the Preferred due date
If you want to allow customers to provide a Preferred due date you can enable it in the Admin Panel. The field can be configured to be either an optional or mandatory input in the Basket.
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User Panel
Basket (as an input field in the Basket wizard for each part)
Order detail view (per line item)
Service Panel
Order detail view (per line item)
Parts view (as column “Due Date”)