You can use this function to round off order quantities in POs and contract release orders. You might do this in order to exploit the conditions negotiated with your vendors to the full or achieve optimal utilization of existing transportation capacities, for example.

In order quantity optimizing, the PO quantity is rounded up or down according to rules defined in Customizing. Different units of measure can be taken into account during this rounding process.

You can use the following rounding profiles for the purpose of order quantity optimizing:

• Static rounding profile
• Quantity addition/subtraction
• Dynamic rounding profile

The following settings are necessary for the individual procedures (in Customizing and in the master data for Purchasing):

• Create a rounding profile in Customizing for Purchasing.
• Enter this rounding profile either in the purchasing info record or in the material master record.

• Maintain the unit of measure group in the purchasing info record if other units are to be taken into account during the rounding process.
• Maintain the alternative units of measure in the material master record (Additional data).

Order quantity optimizing provides the following rounding options:

When working with scheduling agreements, you can only use static rounding profiles.

Before rounding can take place, you must enter the rounding profile in the scheduling agreement and have previously created a source list record flagged as MRP-relevant with automatic schedule line generation for the scheduling agreement.

The rounding of scheduling agreement schedule lines takes place when you carry out a planning run for your independent requirements. To avoid overdelivery, the last schedule line in the scheduling agreement is not taken into account in the rounding.

Note that scheduled quantities are not rounded if you enter schedule lines manually.

The system automatically adjusts the order quantity.