How is Required Date for an item in Work Plan populated

The Required Date for an item in Work Plan Materials tab is populated by Schedule Start Date for the 1^st time. It works in following way for different kind of items:

1. Stock Items – Required Date is read-only and gets populated by Schedule Start Date for the 1^st time. Further changes to Schedule Start date do not get a reflection in Required Date. However, during material reservation on WO approval, the materials get reserved as per the Schedule Start Date bypassing the required date.

2. Direct Items – Required Date is editable and gets populated by Schedule Start Date for the 1^st time. Further changes to Schedule Start date do not get a reflection in Required Date. You can manually edit this date and PRs get generated based on this date (Required Date).

In both the above cases, if Schedule Start Date has not been specified, then Target Start Date gets defaulted to Required Date. If both the dates are present, then Schedule Date takes precedence over Target Date. If none of the date exists, then system date is defaulted.

Courtesy: An old compilation from Infy Team