Scheduling Agreements with Delivery Orders

Use

You create a special type of scheduling agreement on which to base delivery orders. These scheduling agreements contain forecast delivery schedules with fields specific to delivery order processing. The scheduling agreement and forecast delivery schedule contain all the background information necessary (such as materials and quantities) to create schedule lines in the delivery order.

Features

The standard systems contains several new features specifically for processing delivery orders:

  • Scheduling agreement type LZM

  • Item category LZMA

  • Copy control from scheduling agreements to delivery orders

You can copy items into the delivery order with reference to their related scheduling agreements. Choose Start of the navigation path Sales Next navigation step Maintain copy control for sales documents End of the navigation path in Customizing for Sales and Distribution. Use target document TAM and source document LZM .

There are several important differences between a scheduling agreement of type LZM and a standard scheduling agreement. In scheduling agreements with delivery orders:

  • The system sets the MRP handling indicator for the delivery schedule type to E – no just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules. You can view this in the sales overview in the header data.

  • Cumulative quantities are based on delivery orders, not deliveries.

  • The delivery order, unlike the forecast delivery schedule, is not processed or stored in the scheduling agreement.