Minimum Transportation Chain 

Use

You can choose from the following scheduling procedures in the vendor master record:

●     Maximum Dateline

●     Minimum Dateline

●     Maximum Before Minimum Dateline

The minimum dateline, similar to the maximum dateline, differentiates between the categories external dateline and internal dateline. The following text describes the function of the minimum dateline:

Features

External Minimum Dateline

The external minimum dateline only contains the following dates:

●     Latest purchase order date

●     DC delivery date

●     Availability date

The system calculates the gap between the DC delivery date and the latest purchase order date from the planned delivery date, and the gap between the DC delivery date and the availability date from the goods receipt processing time in the material master.

The system uses the minimum dateline if the setting minimum dateline or maximum before minimum dateline is defined in the vendor master.

The system uses the setting Maximum Before Minimum Dateline  if it cannot calculate a maximum dateline. This situation occurs if, for example, you define two starting dates whose time-gap to the latest purchase order date is shorter than defined in the transportation chain.

A purchase order is to be generated from the allocation table. The allocation table transfers the latest purchase order date and the DC delivery date to the purchase order. The interval between these dates is 20 days.

In the determined transportation chain the interval between the latest purchase order date and the DC delivery date is 30 days. Scheduling cannot therefore generate a maximum dateline. In this case it uses the minimum dateline and takes the transferred data.

Determination of the transfer date using the Incoterm is not carried out with the minimum dateline. The transfer date is always the delivery date no matter which Incoterm has been defined.

Internal Minimum Dateline

The internal minimum dateline contains the following dates:

●     Availability date

●     Store delivery date

●     Presentation date

The system determines the interval between the availability date and the store delivery date using the planned delivery time from the article or vendor master. It determines the interval between the store delivery date and the presentation date depending on the goods issue processing time in the article master.