A backordered quantity that is not the ordered less the delivered

backorder-mismatchon by defaultJapanese / English

A backordered quantity that is not the ordered less the delivered on its row

Example

Flagged

| Item | Ordered | Delivered | Backordered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Staples (box) | 50 boxes | 30 boxes | 25 boxes |

What chaff prints

3:41 The backordered quantity "25 boxes" is written, but the ordered and delivered quantities on the row give 20 boxes

Fixed

| Item | Ordered | Delivered | Backordered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Staples (box) | 50 boxes | 30 boxes | 20 boxes |

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Check which of the ordered, delivered and backordered quantities is right, and correct the others.

Why it matters

In the backorder section of a delivery note or a list of open orders, the backordered (remaining, outstanding) quantity of a row is the ordered quantity less the delivered quantity of the same row. Readers learn from it how much is still to come and do not do the subtraction again. It goes wrong when only the delivered quantity is corrected, when the remainder of another row is copied, or when a digit is mistyped. Which column is ordered, delivered and backordered is decided by the heading words alone (Ordered, Delivered, Shipped, Backordered, Remaining, Outstanding), never by where a column stands. Only rows where all three cells are written whole numbers in the same unit are compared.

What it does not flag

A table missing the ordered, delivered or backordered column, or with two of any of them (delivered previously and now: neither alone says what is left), is not compared. Neither is a table with a heading that names both ordered and delivered. A row whose cell is blank, a dash, TBD, a decimal, signed, bracketed or a bound (10 or more), or whose three cells are in different units, is skipped. A row with another count in the same unit (opening stock) is skipped: the remainder may count it too. A row that delivered more than was ordered is left to delivered-over-ordered and its remainder is not compared.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax backorder-mismatch --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: backorder-mismatch: off

Technical details

Layer: L3
Status: stable
Severity: warning
Languages: Japanese and English
Suited to: business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strict	error
normal	warning
relaxed	info

This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.

By genre

Runs by default in: technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
Turned off by the genre in: literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play

Genres

Message

The backordered quantity "{backordered}" is written, but the ordered and delivered quantities on the row give {computed}

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/backorder-mismatch.yaml