Commitment Processing

The system does not check availability or soft commit inventory for sales order lines that enter the fulfillment process.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Fulfillment Management system does not process hard committed lines. If you enter a location or lot number on a detail line during sales order entry, the system issues a hard error.

An order that goes into future commitment because it is outside of the commitment date window (from the branch plant constant settings) is called true future functionality or true future order commit. This distinction is necessary to differentiate between order quantity that goes onto future commitment because of the commitment date window and order quantity that goes onto future commit from advanced preference 41. The Fulfillment Management system is designed to take the place of the true future order system. In the event that a commitment date window and advance preference 41 are both active at order entry time, the system evaluates advanced preference 41 first, which takes precedence over any consideration of the commitment date window. You can simulate the commitment date window functionality within the Fulfillment Management system by using the requested date age scoring preference to create a score that is out of any range of consideration by the fulfillment processes until it comes within the specified commitment window. You run the Repost Active Sales Order report (R42995) to commit true future orders to current. After the orders are current, you run the Fulfillment Management Entry (R4277704) report to enter the orders into the Fulfillment Management system.

The system stores the order quantity in the Future Qty Committed field (SONE) for sales order lines that go into the fulfillment process. The quantity in the field is not considered a true future commitment. The system also enters a 1 into the In Fulfillment field (ALLOC) in the Sales Order Detail table (F4211), which indicates the order line is in the fulfillment process. When the order line enters the fulfillment process, the system moves the quantity from the Quantity Shipped field (SOQS) to the Future Qty Committed field; no quantities reside in the Quantity Backordered (SOBK) or Quantity Canceled (SOCN) fields. The system does not enable you to modify the quantities in these fields. The quantity on the sales order gets moved from the Future Qty Committed field to the Quantity Shipped field using the Auto Fulfillment Processing and the Fulfillment Workbench programs. The system does not allow the Repost Active Sales Orders report (R42995) to move fulfillment orders to soft commit.