Looking for best practices using the order status to indicate when action needs to be taken.
Issue:
We use inventory picks and track lots to ship product and invoice sales orders against warehouse shipments. We are having trouble signaling to the warehouse when to generate a pick list and ship a line/order because there are numerous date fields on a sales order. The order status can be set to Open or Released, but if the status is set to Open will production still see the demand in their planning worksheet? Or does the order status need to be Released?
What's the best way to enter sales orders and indicate to the warehouse that an order can be picked and shipped that also signals to manufacturing that we need a production order to fulfill demand? We routinely take orders that can ship same day and others that have multi-week lead times.