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Purpose

Working with scheduling agreements can shorten processing times and reduce the amount of paperwork you are faced with. One delivery schedule can replace a large number of discrete purchase orders or contract release orders.

Inventories can be reduced to a minimum. You can carry out your manufacturing operations on the Just-in-Time (JIT) principle.

Your vendors require shorter lead times. Smaller deliveries are required, which can be spaced out over a longer period. Delivery scheduling enables vendors to plan and allocate their resources more efficiently.

In repetitive manufacturing involving large quantities, it is desirable for releases to be generated against a scheduling agreement automatically. In the SAP System, you can use the application component PP Structure linkMaterial Requirements Planning for this purpose.

Recommendation

SAP recommends working with scheduling agreements with release documentation. In this case you can make use of the scheduling agreement release types forecast (FRC) delivery schedule and Just-in-Time (JIT) delivery schedule.

Integration

Customers using the Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) can generate schedule lines and releases against scheduling agreements in the APO system.

You can either generate schedule lines and SA releases in the APO system, or use the APO system exclusively for planning and generate the releases in the R/3 system. You specify this by means of the Ext. planning indicator in the additional data for the scheduling agreement item. In both cases, the goods receipt is posted in the R/3 system.

Note

If you generate scheduling agreement delivery schedule lines in the APO system, you cannot create or change schedule lines in the R/3 System.

For more information on the Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), refer to the SAP library.

Prerequisites

Procurement Process Using Scheduling Agreements with Release Documentation

A planning run takes place for the required materials at regular intervals. This automatically generates delivery schedule lines for scheduling agreements.

Scheduling agreement releases are created on the basis of these schedule lines. These are then issued to the vendor.

You have the option of working with both forecast and JIT schedules or only with forecast schedules.

If you work with both types of schedule, the advantage is that the vendor receives more detailed delivery data from you at shorter time intervals in the form of JIT schedules. In addition, he receives a rougher indication of your delivery requirements at longer intervals in the form of forecast delivery schedules.

After the scheduling agreement releases have been created, they are transmitted to the vendor via the message control program RSNAST00.

The releases can be transmitted either directly they are saved or at a later point in time.

Note

It is sensible to carry out the planning run daily and generate releases (delivery schedules) automatically once a week, for example. You can set up the system in such a way that releases are generated for changed scheduling agreement items (materials) only.

See also:

Creation Profile

 

 

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