Enter Customer Schedule Line

Explanation

Use this activity to enter a customer schedule line. This is a mandatory task if using customer scheduling.

Note that in most cases, the lines are automatically generated, not manually created, from the EDI message, DELSCH, that is sent from your customer. This automatic handling makes customer scheduling faster and more efficient.

Customer schedule lines are used for indicating the desired due date for each delivery, desired quantity, and line type of the schedule line. The desired quantity can either be entered as a specific quantity on each line or as a cumulative quantity. If the cumulative quantity is entered, the system calculates the quantity due by using the indicated cumulative figures. The base cumulative quantity is stored on the schedule as the reference point.

You can also specify an alternate delivery site, line type, alternate supply, doc code e.g., a cargo bay or a sub doc code e.g., a gate in the cargo bay and destination location by using the List of Values or by entering the values manually.

A customer schedule is entered in two steps: the header and the schedule lines. To enter a line, the header must first exist.

Customer Schedule Lines in a JIT Customer Schedule can only have line types connected to Delivery Authorized demand type.

JIT Schedules cannot be reconciled and cannot be used for tolerance check. Once you enter a JIT Schedule in Customer Schedule Page, the schedule can only be approved and released without reconciling and tolerance checking.

With the time zone improvement, a badge is introduced for all the date/time attributes.

• Schedule Line section: Delivery Date/From Date, To Date

All date/time attributes are saved in server time zone to the database and displayed in the working time zone of the logged in user.
If one of these fields is entered or edited manually, the time zone can be temporarily changed for input purposes. After saving the value, the working time zone of the logged in user is displayed again.
When you hover over the badge, you can see more details about the time zone and also the corresponding UTC time.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• A customer schedule header must have been entered.
• Schedule line types must be entered on the Customer Schedule Line Types page.
• If the line type determination via customer schedule template shall be used, a Plan Template / Calloff Template must have been defined in the related customer schedule agreement part.
• Alternate release sites, if used, must be defined.
• To use an alternate delivery site, the site must be entered on the Customer Schedule Agreement Part/Supply page.

System Effects

As result of this activity:

• A customer schedule line is created.
• If you specified a cumulative quantity for the line, the system calculates the quantity due based on indicated cumulative figures.
• The base cumulative quantity is stored on the schedule as the reference point.
• When no line type was entered for a line and no template id is set up in the related customer schedule agreement part then the line type is set as the default line type.
• When no line type was entered for a line and a template id is inherited from the customer schedule agreement part then the line type is determined automatically according to the template horizons. Reference dates for the line type determination are delivery date/from date on line level and customer's created date on header level. For lines where the delivery date is out of the template horizons (but still within the validity of the schedule header) again the default line type will be set.

Pages

Customer Schedule
Customer Schedule Lines

Activity Diagrams

Handle Customer Schedule