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

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

If you are used to working with cumulative quantities based on deliveries, the open delivery quantity field (which heads the above quantities) should be of particular use to you. It represents quantities in relation to deliveries.

The cumulative quantities on the right-hand side of the forecast delivery schedule are calculated on the basis of the Pick-up sheet field that contains the pick-up sheet number from the latest delivery order only. These are the:

• Cumulative quantity according to the pick-up sheet number
• Cumulative quantity in transit according to the pick-up sheet number

The customer sends in the latest pick-up sheet number and cumulative quantity received with each new pick-up sheet. Although the system maintains these fields in the forecast delivery schedule, you can change them manually if the customer has sent incorrect data. Choose possible entries to select the correct pick-up sheet from the list of the delivery orders relating to the scheduling agreement (the pick-up sheet number is listed as the purchase order number); or correct the cumulative quantity manually.

When maintaining cumulative quantities, note that:

• The system does not adjust the cumulative quantity when you cancel an item in the forecast delivery schedule, or create a return based on a delivery order. You must do this manually. The standard system contains a sales document type and two item categories for this purpose:

• Sales document type MAKO
• Item category MAK for positive corrections
• Item category MAK1 for negative corrections

• When the customer posts goods receipt, their cumulative quantities are updated. For this reason, you should correct your cumulative quantities only when the customer sends the items back without having posted goods receipt.
• For a year change, you must post cumulative quantities to a different period to the one in which they are reported. To do this, change the cumulative quantity date to match the pick-up date. A new field, Cml qty date (cumulative delivery order quantity date), has been designed for this purpose in the delivery order header for sales.