Planning Delivery Schedule Processing (SAP Library - Scheduling Agreements for Component Suppliers (SD-SLS-OA))

Planning Delivery Schedule Processing

Purpose

Planning delivery schedules have been developed to bring efficiency and manageability to the material planning and shipping processes. In addition to forecast and just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules, Release 4.0 contains this new delivery schedule type for the component supplier industry. The planning delivery schedule is an internal delivery schedule that has been designed to help you:

Plan requirements for future periods not covered by forecast and JIT delivery schedules
Plan requirements when weekly or monthly delivery schedules sent in by the customer are not detailed enough, and are therefore unsuitable for planning
Plan requirements independently of inaccurate or unreliable forecast delivery schedules sent in by the customer
Plan requirements in advance, before having even received forecast delivery schedules from a customer

Integration

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) plays an important role in planning delivery schedule processing. We recommend that you install the EDI component.

Planning delivery schedule functions rely heavily on settings that you make in Customizing. These settings are described in detail in Planning Delivery Schedule Creation.

Features

You create planning delivery schedules manually from internal data or by splitting weekly and monthly schedule lines sent in by the customer into daily schedule lines tailored to your company's shipping and planning processes.

In addition to this main feature, planning delivery schedules have the same standard functions available in forecast and JIT delivery schedules. For example, you can analyze them, and compare them to other delivery schedules associated with the scheduling agreement. This includes:

Comparing delivery schedule histories

Comparing schedule lines

Comparing cumulative released quantities

We have also designed two user exits that you can use to manipulate planning delivery schedules according to your specific requirements.