Dialog Form for the Goods Receiving Hours 

Use

An additional dialog for the goods receiving hours has been implemented in order to allow you to be able to create simple appointment rules. This can always be used when the data is needed outside of CRM Server (e.g., for shipping). The dialog allows the usage of a simple weekly morning and/or afternoon rule.

Only goods receiving hours that were created with the help of the simple rule can be distributed.

The following goods receiving hours cannot be distributed in other systems:

·        Goods receiving hours whose maintenance is complex (e.g. the linkage of weekly and monthly appointment rules)

·        Goods receiving hours that contain exceptions

·        Goods receiving hours that are not valid weekly

Integration

Goods receiving hours already maintained before Release 3.0 cannot be converted automatically into the simple dialog form. They have to be processed manually.

Via the transaction CRM_AC (mass maintenance for goods receiving hours) you can display all business partners whose goods receiving hours do not occur in the simple dialog form. You can process the rules in question accordingly and convert them into the simple format.

Prerequisites

Make the necessary settings in the implementation guide (IMG) in the Customizing of the Business Partner under Establish Dialog Form for Goods Receiving Hours in the Basic Settings.

For data exchange to take place, the calendars in the OLTP System and in CRM Server must be identical.

Features

Via the Customizing setting a check is carried out when the indicator is set, to see whether a rule can be processed using the simple dialog. This setting is client-dependent.

If complex appointment rules have already been created, these can be processed using the complex dialog, as before.

The simple dialog is called only if

·        The system has checked that a rule can be processed using the simple dialog

·        The rule is processed later (for example in the context of the above-mentioned mass maintenance) using the simple dialog.

In the case of complex appointment rules, you receive a message that they are not distributable. You can process the rules accordingly, so that the simple dialog can be used.

Set the indicator in the Customizing setting if a data exchange of the goods receiving hours with external systems, like the R/3 System, is planned.

You can also make the setting if the data is not exchanged with other systems. In this way you prevent, for example, too complex appointment rules being created.