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Calculate Wanted Delivery Date for Saturday Delivery

  • April 1, 2026
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eknock007
Do Gooder (Customer)
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So I am trying to setup the system to auto calculate a Wanted Delivery Date for Saturday deliveries. I was trying to do it through a Delivery Route but I am not sure if that the right way to do it. I tried to create a new calendar that includes Saturdays as a working day and attach it (External Transport Calendar) to a Saturday delivery service Ship Via code, but I still can’t get the Wanted Delivery Date to auto calculated if I pick a Saturday Delivery Ship Via.

Other than manually changing the date on the customer order, does anyone know of way to setup IFS to auto calculate a Saturday Wanted Delivery Date based on the Ship Via and Delivery Route you indicated. 

 

 

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Nikila Dis
Superhero (Employee)
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  • Superhero (Employee)
  • April 2, 2026

Hi ​@eknock007,

I think you are almost on the right path to configure your requirement.

In IFS Cloud, the Wanted Delivery Date is not automatically calculated based solely on the Ship Via’s external transport calendar. While you correctly created a calendar that includes Saturdays and attached it to the Ship Via, this calendar is mainly used for transportation planning and does not control how delivery dates are calculated in customer orders. Instead, the system determines the Wanted Delivery Date using delivery lead times together with the delivery route configuration. Specifically, it considers the planned ship date, adds the defined delivery lead time, and then checks the delivery route calendar to find the next valid delivery day.

To enable Saturday deliveries automatically, I think you need to configure the delivery route rather than relying only on the Ship Via. This involves assigning a delivery calendar that includes Saturdays to the delivery route, ensuring Saturday is marked as an allowed delivery day, and setting an appropriate delivery lead time. If Saturday is not enabled in the delivery route or its calendar, the system will skip it and move to the next valid day, even if the Ship Via allows Saturday. Therefore, the correct approach is to control this behavior through the delivery route setup so that the system recognizes Saturday as a valid delivery day when calculating the Wanted Delivery Date.

For instance,

  • Order Date: Friday (5th April)
  • Delivery Lead Time: 1 day
  • Ship Via: Saturday Delivery

Update Delivery Route Calendar:
Monday–Friday
Saturday (enabled)

Recalculate
Friday + 1 day = Saturday
Saturday is now a valid delivery day

Wanted Delivery Date = Saturday (6th April)

Regards,

Nikila Dissanayake