Field help (EARQTY)

The early/late for the delivery requests is only calculated from the firm delivery requests and is expressed by two items information. The following fields are grayed out (for the inter-site delivery requests, there is no early/late management).
This early/late quantity is expressed in the sales unit entered in the contract order line.
It is incremented in the following cases:

• By the quantity for a delivery call-off when a delivery request is late (Planned delivery date strictly less than the current date).
• When a late planned delivery request is transformed into a firm delivery.
• When the late delivery request quantity is increased.
• When the planned date for the delivery request is modified and this new date is before than the current date.
• When cancelling the closing of a delivery request line and that its planned delivery date is earlier than the current date.
• When the delivery line associated with a late delivery request is deleted.
• When the delivery line associated with a late delivery request is modified by increasing the shipped quantity.

This quantity is decremented in the following cases:

• When a late delivery request is deleted.
• When a late firm delivery request is transformed into a planned delivery request.
• When the late firm delivery request quantity is decreased.
• When the planned date for the delivery request is modified and this new date is greater than or equal to the current date.
• When closing a delivery request line and that its planned delivery date is less than the current date.
• When the delivery line quantity associated with a delivery request is greater than the planned quantity.
  In this context, two behaviors can occur with respect to the value of the parameter EARMGT - Early / late management (VEN chapter, ORD group).
   
  - If this parameter has for value Early/late totals update then the early/late quantity is decreased by the amount that has been shipped in access.
   
  - If this parameter has for value Next delivery request update then the amount shipped in addition will decrease the ordered quantity in the next delivery requests.  In this situation, certain delivery requests can then be closed if the reduction of the quantity is such that the remaining quantity is equal to the quantity currently being shipped. Only the delivery requests where the ordered quantity is greater than the allocated quantity plus the shortage quantity plus the quantity being shipped are processed. The early/late quantity for the contract order line can however be decreased if a processed delivery request was late.

The calculated information is used to verify the consistency of the information supplied by the customer and the current status of the request management linked to the contract order.