Cumulative Quantity

Definition

The accumulated quantity of a material up to a specific date.

Use

Cumulative quantities are an essential tool for planning and monitoring business transactions between you and your business partners. They allow you to look past constant changes to dates and quantities for an accurate picture of which materials have been delivered, received by the customer, or are underway.

Cumulative quantities can be found in the delivery schedule. Choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Item Next navigation step <Delivery schedule> in the scheduling agreement. Or chooseDlvSch.Hdron the delivery schedule tabstrip to view cumulative go-ahead quantities. End of the navigation path

The following cumulative quantities are supported in scheduling agreement processing.

  • Beginning cumulative delivered quantity

    Quantity transferred from a legacy system to the SAP System with initial data transfer .

  • Cumulative delivered quantity

    Sum of all deliveries made in the customer fiscal year.

  • Cumulative issued quantity

    Sum of all delivered quantities for which goods issue has been posted. This sum is calculated even if the customer or external agent has not yet received or recorded the delivered quantities.

  • Cumulative released quantity

    Sum of the cumulative quantity received by the customer, and schedule line quantities up to a specific date.

  • Cumulative quantity received by the customer

    Sum of all deliveries received by the customer in the customer fiscal year.

  • Current cumulative delivery go-ahead quantity

    Quantity up to which the component supplier can deliver finished products to the customer within the validity period of the delivery schedule. This quantity is only available in just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules.

  • Highest cumulative delivery go-ahead quantity

    The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is only available in JIT delivery schedules.

  • Current cumulative material go-ahead quantity

    Quantity up to which the component supplier can procure materials for production within the validity period of the delivery schedule.This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.

  • Highest cumulative material go-ahead quantity

    The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.

  • Current cumulative production go-ahead quantity

    Quantity up to which the component supplier can produce materials for the customer within the validity period of the delivery schedule.This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.

  • Highest cumulative production go-ahead quantity

    The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.

  • Quantity in transit based on cumulative quantities

    Quantity calculated from the difference between the current cumulative delivered quantity and the cumulative quantity received by the customer

  • Quantity in transit based on deliveries

    Quantity calculated from the difference in cumulative quantities from the last delivery sent to the customer and the last delivery received by the customer.

The following cumulative quantities are relevant only to scheduling agreement processing with external agents .

  • Cumulative quantity issued by the external agent

    Sum of all deliveries made by external agents in the customer fiscal year.This quantity is not available in JIT delivery schedules.

  • Cumulative issuedquantity - Last delivery

    Quantity for the last delivery entered in the Delivery by external agent field. This quantity is not available in JIT delivery schedules.

Additional Information

The cumulative delivered quantity is central to the year change function as well as the engineering change function.

You correct cumulative delivered quantities manually for returns .

The system uses cumulative delivered, received, and released quantities to calculate open quantities .