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[Former Member]

What is Schedule line agreement? Any body knows why it is made and when does it complete

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[Former Member]

Hi,

schedule line agreement is another name for scheduling agreement. And the scheduling agreement is a special sales document category to reflect the delivery process in the supplier industry. Scheduling agreements contains of header, items, delivery schedules and schedule lines (in every delivery schedule).

Scheduling agreements in difference to the standard orders have some special properties concerning the determination of the schedule line categories in delivery schedules.

The main different of schedule line category determination in the order and in the scheduling agreement is the following one. In the scheduling agreements you can have different delivery schedule types (forecast, JIT, planning schedule) and in dependance on your "MRP for DS type" (VBAK-ABDIS) and in dependance on JIT horizon date, you can have up to 4 different schedule line categories in the scheduling agreement simultaneously:

- relevant for deliveries and requirements

- relevant only for deliveries

- relevant only for requirements

- relevant neither for deliveries nor for requirenments (pure info).

In difference to the sales order in the scheduling agreement the system first determines relevance of the schedule line for requirements and relevance for deliveries, and then assign the corresponding schedule line category to the schedule line. You have no chance to change it manually (as it would be in the case of standard order). In Customizing you must have all 4 schedule line categories, as indicated above, ordered to the scheduling agreement item.

Regards,

Sankar

[Former Member]

Hi,

Here are some points about the scheduling agreement .

•This is special type of sales document which we call outline agreements in SAP .

•This agreement will be between Supplier and Customer.

• Scheduling agreements will contain the specific material quantities and the dates requested by customers with validity period

•Schedule agreements has forecast delivery schedules and JIT delivery schedules.

•This agreements gives advanced information to the supplier of the customers requirements.

•The basic reason for scheduling agreements is that the customer should get required quantities within our lead time.

•In these cases, the customer sends us a forecast of his demand, normally looking ahead for several months.

•We are expected to build that forecast (within our lead time).

•Customer then sends in the JIT (call off) FIRM orders with, normally, immediate delivery required.

• You will create schedule lines when you create the scheduling agreement

• You fulfill a scheduling agreement by creating the deliveries in the schedule as they become due.

• You process deliveries for a scheduling agreement in exactly the same way as you process a normal delivery. After you have carried out the delivery, the system updates the Delivered quantity field in the scheduling agreement

•Forecast Schedules means Customers sends his requirements based on his historical records

•This will have short, medium, and long-term requirements concerning delivery quantities and dates

•JIT-JIT are FIRM schedules with, normally, immediate delivery required.

• This more suitable for short-term requirements (exact-to-the-minute, in some cases).

•The customer sends in requested quantities and dates, normally by Electronic Data

Interchange (EDI)

•The component supplier enters data manually-CSR enters manually –

Schedule line categories

· CP - Delivery and MRP Relevant & ATP

· BP - MRP Relevant Only & ATP

· BN - Not Delivery or MRP Relevant

“Big Nothing”

· CN - Delivery Relevant Only

· CV -NO reqment /no TOR ,Delivery relevant

When does scheduling agreement get complete.

A scheduling agreement is complete when there are no more items to be delivered. If there are still outstanding items in the agreement but you nevertheless want to close it, you can assign a reason for rejection to these items. SAP then sets the status of the agreement as complete and the outstanding items no longer appear in the delivery due list.

2) SAP will advise you as you are creating a new scheduling agreement if one already exists in the system. You will get a message, “There is a scheduling agreement with this same data.” At this point, you have the option to either proceed with the new agreement or cancel and use the one already created

Hope it helps

Suruchi