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Supplier planning: An enquiry allows the supplier to view the stock status and demand for
products for which they are the preferred supplier. The demand enquiry includes relevant
information from System21 – unallocated sales orders, expected demand from Material
Requirements Planning (MRP), expected demand from Distributed Requirements
Planning (DRP), and a historical demand element based on sales and customer-specific
filters (for example, sales current year to date or previous year to date).
Maintain blanket order delivery schedule: Allows the supplier to amend a blanket
purchase order to specify planned delivery dates and quantities.
Promise date update: Allows the supplier to specify the date they plan to make the delivery.
For direct delivery orders, the supplier updates the promise date for the associated sales
order and e-mails the customer with the delivery notification.
Create Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN): Allows the supplier to construct a shipment
from current order lines and amend quantities on the delivery as required.
Support for entering packaging details to allow shipping documentation to be created.
Allows the customer to receive against the ASN. This reduces the time it takes to get
products into the warehouse.
Delivery of direct customer orders: Allows the supplier to build the details of a direct
shipment to an end customer. They can use this as the start of an @ctive process to
initiate customer billing.
Documentation print: Allows the supplier to print standard shipping documentation
(barcode labels, quality reports, etc.) to be sent with the shipment.
