A delivered quantity larger than the ordered quantity

delivered-over-orderedon by defaultJapanese / English

A row of an order table that delivers more than was ordered

Example

Flagged

| Item | Ordered | Delivered | Backordered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Clear folders | 250 folders | 300 folders | 0 folders |

What chaff prints

3:33 The delivered quantity "300 folders" is larger than the ordered quantity "250 folders" on the same row

Fixed

| Item | Ordered | Delivered | Backordered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Clear folders | 300 folders | 300 folders | 0 folders |

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Check which of the ordered and delivered quantities is right and correct the other. If more really was delivered, say so outside the table.

Why it matters

In the backorder section of a delivery note or a list of open orders, the delivered quantity of a row should not exceed the ordered quantity of the same row. Readers use the table to see what arrived and what is still to come. The delivered quantity exceeds the ordered one when the ordered quantity is copied wrong, when a row is mixed up with another item, or when only the delivered quantity is corrected. Which column is ordered and which is delivered is decided by the heading words alone (Ordered, Qty ordered, Delivered, Shipped), never by where a column stands. Only rows where both cells are written whole numbers in the same unit (40 reams, 300 folders) are compared.

What it does not flag

A table with no ordered or no delivered column, or with two of either (delivered previously and now), 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 two cells are in different units, is skipped. A delivered quantity equal to or less than the ordered one is not reported.

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 delivered-over-ordered --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: delivered-over-ordered: 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 delivered quantity "{delivered}" is larger than the ordered quantity "{ordered}" on the same row

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/delivered-over-ordered.yaml