For a company that rarely allows backorders on SO's, it's all or nothing. Either they check the option on the item to Allow Backorder which means that 99% of the time they have to remember to zero out the BO quantity on the SO so it won't backorder or they have to uncheck the option and not allow backorders at all. If there was an additional field on the item when the Allow Backorder option was checked to default the BO quantity on the SO to the normal calculated BO quantity or to zero that would solve the problem. That way companies that normally allow BO quantities would default to the calculated BO quantity and those companies that rarely allow BO quantities would default to zero. Then they would have to manually enter a BO quantity for those few that were allowed but they wouldn't have to remember to manually zero out the BO quantity for the 99% of the orders when they don't allow backorders.
by: Mark L. | over a year ago | Sales & Distribution
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Mark, couldn't agree more. I'm pretty sure there are other similar posts, but Sage hasn't done anything yet.