Vendor's ship date vs. PO due date

[Evan_Purdy]

@aosemwengie1

Or I fill in the promise date which allows me to retain the original due date but does not tell Epicor that the po is late.

You are correct. I don’t know what to say, I find it surprising that supplier performance is measured off Due Date and not promise date. Seems like suppliers should be held accountable to what they promised, but you would also want to track when something is actually due to deliver for planning purposes. It wouldn’t be hard for them to update the BAQ’s on the supplier performance tracker.

So if a supplier promised to deliver on 3/7/24 but then tells you that due to bad weather it wont be delivered until 3/8/24 it seems like the promise date should remain 3/7/24 but the due date, when you expect to receive it on the dock, should be updated to 3/8/24.

It almost seems like there ought to be three dates:

1. The date we need to get this in order not to screw up our plans and promises.
2. The date the supplier promised to deliver.
3. The date we actually expect to unload on our dock.