Hi,

I have a great idea to make the SOP/POP processing so much more helpful & centralised, containing all the information one could need.

For example: I raise a Purchase order with our Far East Supplier and Place order & Print this to send to them. The next thing I can now do deliver the order however I have missed a load of updates in between. So what would be helpful is after raising & sending the order, I can change the status to: "Acknowledged", followed by then being able to insert an "Expected completion date". After this phase & once completed, I can then arrange shipment and change the status to "Shipped" where I can also put in the expected delivery date. All of this happens before the item is then delivered.

All of these dates could then be easily accessible for all of our team & even possibly sync with the Sage diary to show us when & where all productions & order are.

To summarise for POP the steps would be: Ordered, Acknowledged, Expected completion date, Shipped, ETA, Delivered.

For SOP this would maybe not have as many steps, but something along the lines of: Order raised, Pro Forma Supplied (insert date), Paid, Shipped (insert date), Received.

For me this would be a massive help as sometimes I get asked by our director what I have ordered & when it is expected etc... and I then have to look on Sage for what was ordered, then go to emails to find the shipping confirmation to find when it is expected etc...

I am happy to discuss this with anyone, but hopefully you agree this would be a great feature & I would love feedback on this.