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There are circumstances when there are restrictions on when parts can be ordered or received at a specific location. For example, your suppliers may have restrictions on available ship-out days by week or month. By using the Planning Calendar, Lead Time fields, and Date fields in Intuiflow, you can restrict order generation and PO dates to specific days of the week. The Planning Calendar specifies the days of the week and month that the Request Date can fall on. These planning calendars can then be assigned at a part level to govern when Supply Orders can be ordered based on when their Net Flow enters the Yellow Zone and the Lead Time fields for the part.
Once the Planning Calendar has been established and assigned to a part, the part will follow a new logic for Recommended Orders. Here are the changes to be aware of:
The Planning Calendar calculation will begin once the Net Flow enters the Yellow Zone or if the Net Flow meets the criteria for the Fixed Reorder Cycle.
The Request Date of recommended orders will continue to respect the fixed lead time (at a minimum). This means that the Request Date will always take place at least 1 Fixed Lead Time later than today's date.
Intuiflow will automatically move the Request Date out to the next available day as determined by the Planning Calendar. The next available day will always be at least 1 Lead Time later than today but will be a day of the week selected on the planning calendar.
The Scheduled Order Date will not always be "Today", as it often is with a normal calendar. Instead, the Schedule Order Date is always calculated after the Request Date is set and it is Request Date - Fixed Lead Time.
The Order Receipt Date is always Request Date + Goods Receipt Time.
In the example below, this item has a FLT of 7 and a GRT of 8. The default calendar is a typical work day 5-day calendar of M, T, W, Th, F. The difference between the Request Date and Scheduled Order Date = 7 days. The difference between the Order Receipt Date and the Request Date is 8 days. The Request Date occurs on a Wednesday, which is one of the days selected in the sample planning calendar in the image.
