Why don't you ship immediately upon completion? As soon as the work order is finished it should be forwarded to S/R for shipping and once shipped forwarded to the office for invoicing.

Well....this could be done without a major overhaul. If ISTS was to create a new report that simply produced a variance listing from Est. Ship Date in the SO as compared to Act. Finish Date from WO-I that should give you what you are looking for.

There are 2 date fields in the Sales Order line item file (which becomes the invoice line item file) - the Estimated Ship Date and the Actual Ship date.  When the order is in the Open SO file as opposed to the posted invoice file, the Actual Ship Date field is not used becasue it is not shipped yet.  We could use that date as a second date relating to the projected shipment so you could have both the customer request date and your realistic projected ship date.  Other people might use the same capability to differentiate between a customer required "On Dock" date as opposed to a ship date, thus allowing for transit time.  Given that scenario, all currently existing orders have a date in the "Est Ship Date" field.  If we added the capability to update both date fields in SO-A, all existing reports look at that currently populated field so I would think the new logic should continue to use that date as the Ship Date so MRP and the Shipping Schedule and other reports don't need to be changed and we can call the other date the "Customer Due Date".  Comments or suggestions?  What kind of reports would you want using the new date?  Besides the obvious "Late Shipment" report listing orders with a Ship Date greater than the customer due date.

Yeah, thats what reminded me how bad I wish DBA had the capability.

Good Idea! thats better than anything I was able to come up with.  I'll give it a try and see how it works for me

But what is the program doing with those dates? Or is the due date strictly notational? And is it going to be on the forms and/or reports? If so, which forms/reports?

I am making a custom on-time delivery report using Crystal.  But, I cannot find the customer's "dream date" once the order has shipped (from BKARHIVL).  I see from Lynn's response that the unused ASD in the current BKARINVL is being used for this date.  Does it just go away once the order ships?  Or, can I retrieve the info from another file?  
 
Thanks