In order to retain an adequate overview even in the case of scheduling agreements having a large number of delivery schedule lines, you can aggregate schedule lines, re-assign numbers that have become free, and aggregate the order history.

• Re-number schedule lines

• Aggregate schedule lines

• Aggregate order history

With long-running scheduling agreements, it can frequently happen that the counter for the delivery schedule line numbers reaches its maximum value prematurely because many numbers are still assigned to schedule lines that have since been deleted.

You can re-assign these numbers by re-numbering schedule lines. The counter then only contains consecutive numbers for relevant lines.

Over time, a large number of schedule lines may accumulate with respect to scheduling agreement items. This makes it difficult to retain an overview of the overall delivery schedule and has a negative effect on system performance.

To achieve a better overview, you can aggregate schedule lines, i.e. add together the scheduled quantities of lines relating to dates that lie in the past and for which delivery is complete. If you aggregate on a monthly basis, for example, and take a look at the delivery schedule in June, you will see not all the individual schedule lines created since January, but only a few aggregated lines showing the totals for the preceding months. Below these, you see a detailed listing of the open schedule lines that are of interest to you for your current processing.

You can deactivate the aggregated display at any time.

In the case of large volumes of data, you should carry out the data compression (aggregation) process in the background.

This function enables you to select all scheduling agreement items with a large number of order history records and then aggregate the closed transactions (i.e. all those with respect to which goods and invoices have been received) to form a totals record.