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Check Factory Calendar

The public holiday and factory calendar is a central module in the SAP System. It is used in many areas (e.g. in Logistics and in Human Resources) in the standard version.

You can use calendar maintenance to maintain and display the components of the calendar system. The public holiday and factory calendar data calculated from calendar maintenance is directly available to the system.

A factory calendar is allocated to your plant via another Customizing function.

The calendar system consists of the following components:

Standard Settings

The system delivers definitions of all common public holidays and public holiday rules, as well as a standard factory calendar.

A main memory area of 400000 Bytes is reserved for calendar data in the standard version. This is the mimimum buffer size, which you should not go under.

Activities

Check whether all the definitions for public holidays and public holiday rules that you need are available in the sytem. If necessary, maintain the public holiday definitions and copy them to new or existing public holiday rules.

Create factory calendars if necessary.

Public holidays

Check that existing public holidays are complete, and create new definitions if required:

1. Double-click with the mouse on the Execute symbol, select the option Public holidays and choose the function Display.
2. Check whether the list of public holidays displayed contains all the public holidays that you need.
If you want to see detailed information on any public holiday, choose the function Display def.
3. If you need other public holidays, return to the initial screen of the maintenance transaction, and choose the function Change.
4. Choose the function Insert, and now make the following entries:
Save the definition.

Public holiday calendar

Combine the public holidays you require in a public holiday rule in the public holiday calendar:

1. Double-click with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public holiday calendar and choose the function Display.
2. Check whether all the public holiday rules that your require are available.
To get the definitions for a public holiday calendar, position the cursor on it and choose the function Display def. .
3. If you need other public holiday calendars or would like to change existing ones, return to the initial screen of the maintenance transaction and choose the function Change.
4. To create a public holiday calendar, choose the function Insert (to change a public holiday calendar, position the cursor on it and choose Change ), and make the following entries:
5. Using the function Assign public holidays, generate a complete list of defined public holidays.
6. Select the public holidays you need, and choose Assign public holidays.
7. Save your entries.

Factory calendar

Define a factory calendar including the relevant public holiday calendar:

1. Double-click with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public holiday calendar and choose the function Display.
2. In calendar maintenance, select the option "Factory calendar", and choose the function Change.
3. Choose the function Insert and make the following entries:
4. Decide which days of the week are meant to be workdays.
5. Define special rules if necessary (e.g. plant holidays).

Further Notes