Manufacturing planning now supports scheduling work orders backwards from a required finish time, helping teams plan production around delivery or completion deadlines. If the calculated start time would be in the past, the system automatically switches to forward scheduling from the current time to keep plans realistic.

Implement backward scheduling

Allow to schedule workorders 'backward': the last workorders in chain must finish at a specific datetime.
However if any of the first workorders should have been started in the past scheduling is done 'forward' from now on

task: 4504976

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UPS shipping has been updated to use UPS's newer API by default because the older UPS connection is being retired. This helps keep shipping rates, labels, and related UPS services working after the legacy cutoff date, with module naming and data updated accordingly.

The UPS 'legacy' API will no longer be usable after 5/31/2024
So make UPS 'rest' API the default