Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt

This field applies to APS and is used only for Purchased items.

Your vendors may have temporary problems meeting their lead times for certain items. To ensure that APS creates the planned order for this item with the appropriate lead time in this situation, enter the earliest date by which purchases of this item can arrive. All planned orders the system creates for this item will have due dates no earlier than this date. If the date is in the past, this field is ignored.

This date temporarily overrides the item's standard and expedited lead times.

See Defining Lead Time for APS Planning.

When APS creates a planned order for this item, it determines that the item can be received either by the current date + lead time or by this Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date, whichever is later. This date overrides lead times as follows:

Standard lead time: overrides standard lead time only until the time between the current date and the Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date is within lead time (after which normal lead time planning resumes).
Expedited lead time: if the Earliest Planned Purchase Receipt date is between the standard lead time and the expedited lead time, it overrides the expedited lead time and becomes the "effective" expedited receipt date. After the earliest receipt date is within the expedited lead time, the normal expedited lead time will be used.

Note: Typically, this option does not affect normal purchase orders already in the system. However, if you change the due date on an existing PO to match the date entered here, upper-level assemblies will recognize the new date, which is outside of lead time. If you change the due date to a date later then the date entered here, you will receive a move-in exception message to alter it to match the earliest planned PO date.

If you leave this field blank, the system assumes it is a date far in the past and ignores it.

The time value used in this date comes from the Supply Time planning parameter.