Planning Delivery Schedule Creation
Use
You can use internal planning data, or customer data, to create an internal delivery schedule tailored to your company’s production.
There are three ways to create a planning delivery schedule. You can:
This method is ideal for incoming EDI forecast delivery schedules. The system creates a planning delivery schedule without you having to take the time to trigger the function manually.
This method allows you to control when a planning delivery schedule is created.
This method is ideal for advance planning when there is no internal data, no forecast delivery schedule, or when the forecast delivery schedule is inaccurate or unreliable.
There are two ways to enter schedule lines in a planning delivery schedule. Depending on the settings you make in Customizing, you can:
This is the most common method for assembling schedule lines in a planning delivery schedule. It consists of dividing the weekly or monthly schedule lines in the forecast delivery schedule into daily schedule lines in the planning delivery schedule. Note that you can only split weekly and monthly schedule lines. Daily schedule lines are copied from the forecast delivery schedule unchanged.
This splitting function is not associated with the
This method is useful when schedule lines in the forecast delivery schedule are detailed enough, but you want to limit the planning period. For example, if the forecast delivery schedule covers 16 weeks and you only want to plan for 8 weeks, you simply copy the schedule lines for those 8 weeks, unchanged, into the planning delivery schedule.
In both cases, you may choose to adopt schedule lines from the previous planning delivery schedule for periods during which customer schedule lines are imprecise, or if there are no customer schedule lines that cover the full period for which you want to plan.
You can change schedule lines with a
Example
You want to plan requirements for a certain customer for the next 16 weeks. You create a planning delivery schedule on the basis of information that you have gathered in an internal planning system. A few days later, the customer sends you a forecast delivery schedule that covers only 12 weeks. You decide to generate a planning delivery schedule by copying the schedule lines from the forecast delivery schedule for those 12 weeks, splitting them into units and days that fit your production schedule. For the remaining four weeks that you require, you simply adopt schedule lines from the previous planning delivery schedule in the scheduling agreement.
For another customer, you create a six-week planning delivery schedule on the basis of internal data. When the customer sends in a forecast delivery schedule for the same six weeks, you notice that the first four weeks of schedule lines in the customer delivery schedule are detailed enough for production, but the last two are inaccurate. You decide to copy the first four weeks of schedule lines unchanged into the new planning delivery schedule. You adopt the remaining two weeks of schedule lines from the previous planning delivery schedule, which already exists in the scheduling agreement.
Activities
You tailor this function to your company’s planning requirements by making settings in Customizing for planning delivery schedule instructions and delivery schedule splitting rules.
Constraints
You cannot create planning delivery schedules on the basis of just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules.