Each order has a plan: dated steps such as booking, the carrier's cut-offs, document deadlines and filings. Each step's due date is counted from an anchor, such as the requested ship date, the booking's ETD, the carrier's cut-off or the bill of lading date, and “Why?” shows which anchor and offset were used.
Working days, in the right country
- A step done in Egypt counts Egyptian working days: Friday and Saturday are the weekend, and Egyptian public holidays are skipped.
- A step done at destination counts that country's working days.
- Your organisation's own work week is used for your internal steps.
Estimates are labelled
When a date comes from a typical value rather than your booking (a usual transit time or a port's usual cut-off), it is marked as an estimate and you can change it. When the real date arrives, the plan is recalculated.
A late step warns and is escalated to its owner, but a plan date never blocks the order on its own.