Scheduling with transportation chains calculates the dates automatically, for example, from the handover date or ex-factory date to the delivery date, between the generation of the purchase order and the arrival of the goods in the distribution center.
In addition to the availability of Transportation Chains for Scheduling within the standard Purchase Order (ME21N), with this product feature you can perform the following:
Communicate the scheduled dates of a transportation chain to external partners using Intermediate Documents (IDocs)
Receive confirmations or corrections from external partners using IDoc
Receive confirmations, corrections, or actual dates from external partners using Remote Function Call (RFC)
Update dates which are not transferred using IDoc or RFC manually using a workbench
Monitor standard purchase orders within the Reactive PO Monitor workbench
Technical Name of Product Feature |
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Product Feature is | New |
Country Dependency | Valid for all countries |
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Availability | SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 7 Support Pack Stack 12 |
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The following new transactions are created:
WDLW
: You can use this workbench to display the current status of the datelines, forecast when a particular operational date ID will be executed, simulate datelines, perform corrections on a particular operational date ID, and perform actions based on the rescheduled date ID.
WRF_RMCODE
: You can use this view to maintain remark codes that indicate the reason for a change in the planned dates.
The following IDoc is enhanced:
FSHORD03
New IDoc segment E1EDP37
is created
The following RFC Application Programming Interface (API) is created:
WRF_PCTR_ACTIVITY_EXT
: You can use this RFC Application Programming Interface (API) to send the confirmation for planned dates, post the correction dates, or post the actual dates for a particular operational date ID.
You make the settings for this function in the following Customizing activity:
Process Dates
under .