Allocation: Scheduling in Allocation Tables
Use
Scheduling involves determining the date by which a follow-on document has to be generated to ensure that the goods movement is made on time.
Depending on the Customizing settings for the item category, dates in the following document types are scheduled:
Prerequisites
An allocation table item is scheduled automatically by the system if you configured scheduling for the relevant item category in Customizing for Allocations.
Features
For every follow-on document type, a generation date is managed in the allocation table both at site delivery phase level and distribution center delivery phase level.
The generation date is displayed in allocation table maintenance for purchase orders to external vendors only (the Order date field). You can find this information in the site/distribution center details screen for every delivery phase.
The order date for a delivery phase at site level is only filled if the site is supplied directly from the vendor and not from the distribution center (third-party order).
When switched on in Customizing, the generation date for a follow-on document is determined per site as follows
Generation date = delivery date - goods receipt processing time from article master - planned delivery time from article master
Starting from the delivery date, the system schedules backwards. If the system discovers in the course of scheduling that the generation date should be before the current date, the system uses the current date.
If you enter the delivery date manually, the system issues a message indicating the earliest possible delivery date. The delivery date is determined by the forward scheduling function.