As of Release 3.0, the scheduling screen for scheduling agreements shows you how often changes to the schedule for an item have already been transmitted to the vendor (and whether the transmission was completed successfully). The system assigns a consecutive number to each of the successively updated schedules transmitted to the vendor.
On the screen for schedule lines with statistical data, there is a field "Old quantity". The quantity shown in this field relates to the date shown in a new field "Last transmission".
This enhancement ensures compliance with part of the German VDA recommendation 4905.
Accordingly, the following two fields are now provided on the scheduling screen for scheduling agreement items:
The field "Last transmission" now contains the date and point in time of
the last transmission of the delivery schedule for the relevant item. The
field 'Serial number' identifies the current change status of the schedule
that is next to be transmitted to the vendor.
This serial number at item level must not be confused with a transmission
number (e.g. EDI) that applies to the transmission of the scheduling agreement
as a whole.
SAP also supports scheduling agreements with several items:
In a scheduling agreement with three items, the schedules for the individual
items may have different change statuses. The SAP system manages the serial
numbers for the changes affecting the schedules for each item separately.
In the case of scheduling agreements with only one item, the serial number for schedule updates transmitted to the vendor is the same as the transmission number for the complete scheduling agreement.
A new scheduling agreement has one item with 1000 tons of "steel 1". The item has the following delivery schedule, which has already been transmitted to the vendor:
The next time you display or change the schedule, the latter will have the serial number "2". If you now change the quantity for 05.30 from 80 to 100, the schedule will still have the number "2". Only when the updated schedule is transmitted to the vendor does the system automatically increase the number. In the latter case, the number in the field "Serial number" will now read "3" as identification for the next update.