Dateline (Quick Guide) 

Use

The dateline is divided into a header area and the items consisting of date rows. Here you can track whether actual postings exist for dates. Items of the date category M (operational date) with a red status icon require you to intervene, for example, – provided date monitoring is activated – in reactive purchase order monitoring.

We would like to draw your attention to the functions and options named below, which are available in change mode. (There is a reduced set of functions available in display mode).

Features

·         with the quick info text Display Move Time Table

At header level, you can branch to the display of the transportation times table.

·         with the quick info text Define Fixed Date

You can select one or more rows and define them as start dates using this pushbutton. The system indicates this by displaying the function symbol for Define Fixed Date in the Selected Row column.

The start date can be changed at any time, however. If you select new rows and choose Define Fixed Date, the system removes the previous start date indicators and fixes the rows you have just selected.

When the dateline is recalculated, the system recalculates the preceding dates and follow-on dates for all non-fixed dates.

You can change dates with the attribute value P (forecast date), however not those with the attribute value I (actual posting).

·         with the quick info text Proposal for Date Shift

Available when shifting a date or sending a reminder. The system automatically increases the interval since the last actual date posted by the number of days defined in the activities profile in the Default Interval for Date Shift field.

Date Shift

       1.      You select a row in the items of the dateline for which there is still no actual posting. (The field in the Actual Data/Forecast column is filled with a forecast date and has the prefix P.)

       2.      You choose the function  with the quick info text Define Fixed Date.  The system places the selection function symbol in the Selected Row column.

       3.      By double-clicking on the blue arrow symbol () in the Selected Date column, you determine the direction of the arrow and therefore whether you process the target date or the tolerance date.

       4.      You enter a target date or tolerance date that matches the current date or is in the future. The system updates all dates in the dateline.

       5.      Save the entries.