Purchase Lead Days

The Just-In-Time Inventory and Automatic Purchase Order Replenishment features reference purchase lead days when establishing an estimated ship date for incoming merchandise from a selected vendor. During Purchase Order Entry, the system adds the purchase lead days (if any) to the current date to calculate the default vendor ship date. The system also uses purchase lead days in merchandising analysis reports.

When determining purchase lead days, the system checks the following routines in the following order for a lead days field with a valid response and uses the first one it finds.

• ATP Web Service, if licensed and active, is checked for lead times. Otherwise, the standard lead time hierarchy is used.

• The Purchase Lead Days field in the District and Regional Product Settings.

• The Purchase Lead Days field in the Advanced Product Settings.

• The Purchase Lead Days field in the Vendor Ship-From Settings.

• The Lead Time field in the Regional Vendor Settings (Regional Processing must be active).

• The Lead Days field on the Product Group Exceptions screen, accessed via the Action button on the Advanced Vendor Settings.

• The Lead Days field on the Product Category Exceptions screen, accessed via the Action button on the Advanced Vendor Settings.

• The Purchase Lead Days field in the Advanced Vendor Settings.

• The Average Lead Time field in the Vendor Settings.

The system also references the Exclude Weekends in Vendor Lead Days in the Purchasing Control Settings when calculating purchase lead days.