Generation of Schedule Lines

Use

This function is used to generate schedule lines.

Integration

The system generates the schedule lines again automatically when the item data is confirmed. They can also be generated manually in ad items.

Schedule lines are generated for an item and describe it in terms of production in conjunction with the sub-items. The production view is displayed in a more detailed form at schedule line level than at sub-item level.

See also: Sales Document

See also : Generation of Sub-Items

Increased detail means that you can assign an alternative ad spec to each basic booking unit and publication date in an ad item.

Each schedule line has a status that describes its processing level.

See also: Status of Sales Documents

Billing datasets cannot usually be billed until the associated schedule lines have been positioned, produced or sent.

See also: Billing

Prerequisites

Items such as an ad insert or distribution order that has been booked selectively are to be described in terms of production.

You have created the planning data for the item, which is defined by the item type.

Features

The item type controls the rule used to generate schedule lines:

Item type	Generation of schedule lines
AD	One schedule line for each assigned basic booking unit and publication date.
CM	One schedule line for each assigned basic booking unit and airing date.
AI DT	One schedule line for each basic booking unit booked.
OL	One schedule line for each assigned basic booking unit, technical content component and publication date.
SV	No schedule lines.

The system displays all schedule lines in an item in the schedule line overview. The schedule line that was selected in the schedule line overview is displayed on the Details tab page at item level.

The system checks whether schedule lines can be produced during schedule line generation. The following checks can be performed according to the item type:

Item type	Check
AD, AI, OL,DT, CM	Has the booking unit been created in the product master data? Can the booking unit be sold on the date specified? Has a deletion flag been set in the booking unit master data?
AD, AI	Has a production unit been generated for the booking unit specified?
AD OL	Does the publication date or copy number conflict with the order deadline? Is the content component produced in the specified booking unit and date? Is the content component sold in the specified booking unit and date?
AI	Is the booking unit available for the processing type and date specified?
AI DT	Have selective booking quantities been positioned in a combined booking unit that is booked selectively?
AD	Have schedule lines already been generated?
CM	Is airtime available in the commercial cluster specified? Does the minimum or maximum length of the commercial defined in the order exceed or undershoot the maximum or minimum length specified in the product master data?

The system informs you if it is unable to generate all schedule lines for an item. You can display why schedule lines could not generated in the generation log.

See also: Display of Logs

If you change the planning data in an item, the system generates new schedule lines when the item data is confirmed.

See also: Change Document Items

Suppressable Content Components

Content components can be suppressed during schedule line generation. This means that advertising space can be sold using more detailed columns than those used for production.

Example Example

The Audi A4 and Audi A8 columns are to be sold and the Audi content component produced.

You have assigned content components to the basic booking unit.

You have assigned the Audi A4 and Audi A8 content components below the Audi content component in the sales view. You have not assigned any content components below the Audi content component in the technical view.

If you have entered an ad order with the Audi A4 business content component, the system determines the Audi technical content component when the item data is confirmed.

The Audi A4 content component is used to perform settlement for the ad. It is positioned in the Audi content component.

End of the example.

First-level content components are usually required to structure content component hierarchies and not to describe positioning options.

To ensure that the system does not determine first-level content components as positioning options during suppression of ad booking units that are combined by content, check that these content components are created with the Non-suppressable type.

See also: Content Component

Converted Content Components

If you enter an ad or online booking unit with a content component that was converted in the product master data, the system determines content components as follows during schedule line generation:

If you enter a combined booking unit to which basic booking units with differently named content components were assigned in the product master data, the system converts these content components in the production view.
If you assign several booking units to which basic booking units with differently named content components were assigned in the product master data to an ad or online item, the system converts these content components in the sales view.

Enter Additional Booking Units

If you have assigned additional booking units to an ad item, you can use the Filter BU+ indicator to determine whether the system compares the dates for the additional booking units to the dates of the original booking unit.

If you have selected the Filter BU+ indicator, the system does not compare theses dates.
If you have not selected this indicator, the system only generates schedule lines for these additional booking units for the dates on which the original booking unit is also published.

Example
The original booking unit for the ad item is a daily newspaper. The second booking unit is a weekly newspaper that is published on Saturdays. Enter Monday as the publication date.

If this indicator is selected, the system generates the schedule line for the weekly newspaper. If this indicator is not selected, the system does not generate this schedule line.

End of the example.

The Filter BU+ indicator is selected as follows in Customizing:

Indicator	Menu path
Filter BU+	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Order Settings for SpecificSales Areas Make General Settings

Enter Fixed Spaces

If you enter an ad item with a positioning instruction and a booking unit for which fixed spaces have been created in the master data, the system checks the number of possible positionings when the item data is confirmed. If the maximum possible number of positionings is exceeded here, the system generates schedule lines as follows:

If the Overbooking allowed indicator was selected when the fixed space was created, the system displays a note accordingly and generates the associated schedule lines.
If this indicator was not selected, the system displays an error message and does not generate the associated schedule lines. An entry is made to this effect in the generation log.

Enter Additional Dates

If you enter a booking unit and one or more additional dates for an ad item, the system checks whether the booking unit is published for each additional date.

If you enter a basic booking unit and the additional date does not match the publication date, the system informs you that it cannot generate the schedule line.

If you enter a combined booking unit, the system checks whether the reference basic booking unit is published on the additional date. The system responds in one of the following ways according to whether you have entered a booking unit that is combined by region or one that is combined by content:

If the reference basic booking unit for a booking unit that is combined by region is published on the additional date, the system determines the next publication date for each of the lower-level basic booking units even if this does not match the additional date. It then generates the schedule lines for the dates determined.
The system only takes account of basic booking units that are published on the additional date for booking units that are combined by content. Any restrictions to specific weekdays that you have made in the weekday string are ignored.

If you enter a periodic publication date such as every second week, the system only searches for issues in every second week that match the booking unit that has been booked and that have the corresponding issue variant type.

When you enter a date combination, the system informs you that any date specification you enter here does not apply to additional dates. The system generates additional schedule lines for additional dates.

Enter Alternative Dates

The system uses the issue variant type to determine alternative dates in ad items. Alternative dates are therefore only determined during schedule line generation if the following prerequisites are fulfilled:

You have specified a publication period or a number of publications and selected a weekday indicator. The weekday indicator defines the issue variant type.
No production unit has been generated for the publication date and issue variant type required.

In all other situations, the system does not determine alternative dates during schedule line generation. This is the case if you enter a publication period without a weekday indicator or a single date.

Enter Date Combinations

If you enter a fixed date combination, the system generates schedule lines when the item data is confirmed. The system determines the dates specified when the date combination was created that can next be booked, such as the next Wednesday and Saturday that can be booked.

If you enter a flexible date combination, the system generates schedule lines as follows when the item data is confirmed:

If you have selected the Manual schedule line generation indicator in Customizing, you must generate schedule lines manually. The system proposes the number of dates that were specified when the date combination was created and that can next be booked as publication dates on a dialog box.
If this indicator has not been selected, the system proposes the number of dates that were specified when the date combination was created and that can next be booked as publication dates.

See also : Entry of Date Combinations

Change Page/Column Format in the Ad Spec

Once new schedule lines have been generated, you can check whether any changes to the page/column format in the schedule lines mean that this is no longer identical to the ad spec page/column format.

If a variation is identified during the check, the ad spec page/column format can be modified automatically. Automatic modification is possible if the ad spec is only assigned to schedule lines for the current item and these schedule lines have the same page/column format.

The system informs you if a variation is identified during the check and automatic modification is not therefore possible. In this situation, you can only modify the ad spec page/column format manually.

Select the Check page/column format to check that the check is performed.

Indicator	Menu path
Check page/column format	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Order Client-Specific Settings Define Order Change Type.