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Function documentationScheduling

 

Scheduling calculates the decisive dates for an order proposal:

  • Planning date

  • Release date

  • Order date

  • Goods issue date

  • Delivery date

  • Availability date

The system calculates a day and time for these dates (with time stamp, such as 01:37:00).

The scheduling function does not have its own user interface. Instead, several applications in SAP F&R (such as the Replenishment Workbench, the Product Workbench, and the F&R Processor) use it in the background.

Features

Scheduling takes different approaches to determining a valid order day and delivery day, dependent on the procurement cycle and/or the planned delivery time:

  • If a procurement cycle is assigned to the transportation lane, the system derives the order day and delivery day from the definition of the procurement cycle as follows:

    • For procurement cycles with type order cycle/delivery cycle (Forward Scheduling) and delivery cycle/order cycle (Backward Scheduling), the system determines the order and delivery dates exclusively from the settings from the procurement cycle (it also determines the planned delivery time from the procurement cycle).

    • For procurement cycles with type order cycle (forward scheduling) and delivery cycle (backward scheduling), the system schedules using the planned delivery time determined from the transportation lane.

  • If no procurement cycle is assigned, the system schedules forwards exclusively. In this case, every working day is a valid order day; the corresponding delivery day is calculated by adding the planned delivery time (from the transportation lane) to the order day.

To calculate dates that are dependent on the order and delivery days (planning date, release date, goods issue date, availability date), the system takes the following processing times into account from the transportation lane or the location product data:

  • Purchasing department processing time (order date – purchasing department processing time = planning date)

  • Order release time (planning date + order release time = release date)

  • Goods issue processing time (order date + goods issue processing time = goods issue date)

  • Goods receipt processing time (delivery date + goods receipt processing time = availability date)

Note Note

If the processing times are not specified as multiples of days, the system rounds them up to full days during date calculation.

End of the note.

The following diagram illustrates how processing times are taken into account in scheduling:

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