Processing Delivery Schedules 

Purpose

You can use this business process to process delivery schedules. Scheduling agreements are a form of purchase agreement for which the delivery of the total quantity is spread over a certain period in a delivery schedule, consisting of lines indicating the individual quantities with their corresponding planned delivery dates. Scheduling agreements support the following procurement forms:

·        Standard

·        Subcontracting

·        Consignment

·        Stock transfer

Scheduling agreement releases are issued to the vendor, instructing the latter to effect deliveries of the relevant material on the dates shown. A creation profile determines which event triggers the creation of a scheduling agreement release, how the delivery dates are displayed (aggregation and release horizon), and whether backlogs and immediate requirements are determined. A tolerance check can be carried out for releases that are created due to changes to the overall delivery schedule in the system.

Scheduling agreement processing is heavily integrated with planning functions: The scheduling agreement releases can result directly from a planning run without requiring further involvement of a purchaser. Before you can use scheduling agreements, you must maintain the source list, including the MRP indicator for relevant items.

Vendors can issue confirmations (order responses) to the relevant purchasing organization indicating their compliance or non-compliance with the scheduled delivery dates.

You can work with or without release documentation for scheduling agreements.

·        With release documentation

The schedule lines in the system have internal character and are not transmitted to the vendor until you explicitly create a scheduling agreement release. This may take one of two forms:

¡        Forecast (FRC) delivery schedule

¡        Just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedule

All scheduling agreement releases are stored in the system. Thus you can monitor the scheduling agreement releases, or compare selected scheduling agreement releases with each other.

·        Without release documentation

The schedule lines are immediately transmitted to the vendor.

Process Flow

The following business process runs in SAP R/3 Enterprise:

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       1.      Create/process scheduling agreements

       2.      Release scheduling agreements

       3.      Transmit and monitor scheduling agreements

       4.      Process delivery schedules and releases

       5.      Transmit and monitor delivery schedules

       6.      Administrate scheduling agreements

       7.      Monitor/view list display of scheduling agreements