Cumulative Quantity
Definition
The accumulated quantity of a material up to a specific date.
Use
Cumulative quantities are an essential tool for planning and monitoring business transactions between you and your business partners. They allow you to look past constant changes to dates and quantities for an accurate picture of which materials have been delivered, received by the customer, or are underway.
Cumulative quantities can be found in the delivery schedule. Choose Goto ® Item ® <Delivery schedule> in the scheduling agreement. Or choose DlvSch.Hdr on the delivery schedule tabstrip to view cumulative go-ahead quantities.
The following cumulative quantities are supported in scheduling agreement processing.
Quantity transferred from a legacy system to the R/3 System with
Sum of all deliveries made in the customer fiscal year.
Sum of all delivered quantities for which goods issue has been posted. This sum is calculated even if the customer or external agent has not yet received or recorded the delivered quantities.
Sum of the cumulative quantity received by the customer, and schedule line quantities up to a specific date.
Sum of all deliveries received by the customer in the customer fiscal year.
Quantity up to which the component supplier can deliver finished products to the customer within the validity period of the delivery schedule. This quantity is only available in just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedules.
The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is only available in JIT delivery schedules.
Quantity up to which the component supplier can procure materials for production within the validity period of the delivery schedule. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.
The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.
Quantity up to which the component supplier can produce materials for the customer within the validity period of the delivery schedule. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.
The year’s highest cumulative quantity. This quantity is not available in planning delivery schedules.
Quantity calculated from the difference between the current cumulative delivered quantity and the cumulative quantity received by the customer
Quantity calculated from the difference in cumulative quantities from the last delivery sent to the customer and the last delivery received by the customer.
The following cumulative quantities are relevant only to scheduling agreement processing with
external agents.Sum of all deliveries made by external agents in the customer fiscal year. This quantity is not available in JIT delivery schedules.
Quantity for the last delivery entered in the Delivery by external agent field. This quantity is not available in JIT delivery schedules.
Additional Information
The cumulative delivered quantity is central to the
year change function as well as the engineering change function.You correct cumulative delivered quantities manually for
returns.The system uses cumulative delivered, received, and released quantities to calculate
open quantities.