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Forecast schedule lines vs. Planned schedule lines in Sales Scheduling Agreements

alaintgkm
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Hello,

In the context of setting up an EDI interface between our system (Vendor on S4 Hana Cloud) and Customers, we are working with Sales Scheduling Agreements, and with the SOAP webservice schedgagrmtdlivschedule_in to integrate the incoming messages from the Customers.

In the incoming messages coming from the Customers, we are receiving an information for each schedule line, indicating whether it is a "forecast" schedule line (uncertain order) or a "planned" schedule line (certain order).

My issue is that I cannot find any field to write that information in S4. I thought about using texts, but those are only available on the Sales Scheduling Agreement Item level, and not on the schedule line level.

Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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AndreasMuno
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Thank yo for your request, @alaintgkm ,

please have a look at the flow diagram of business scope item 3NR which shows how forecasts vs planning data are being processed in SAP best practices.

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Also, please have a good look at the Accelerators of this scope item, mainly the set-up instructions and test script:

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I got to the scope item in the SAP for Me Process Navigator via the SAP Business Accelerator Hub for the API you had mentioned, API Reference | Delivery Schedule of Sales Scheduling Agreement – Receive, Update (B2B) | SAP Busine... which has many more details about the API proper and its business context.

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I noticed your request had been lingering in the Community for a bit. In future, please use tag "SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition" for respective requests as this tag is monitored regularly by our experts. Thank you.

alaintgkm
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Hello @AndreasMuno ,

Thank you for your answer.

I am aware of these documentations, which have helped me start the setup.

In the Test Script, at step 5.5.6 "Generate Planning Delivery Schedule (Optional)", the document explains that "For delivery schedule generated via EDI, planning delivery schedule will generate automatically."

However, even though they will receive the forecast delivery schedules via EDI from their buyers, our customer wishes to control them first before generating the planning delivery schedules manually. The reason being that they want to prevent changes in the MRP without manually checking the incoming demands first. (planning delivery schedule lines impact MRP, but forecast delivery lines do not).

And to come back to my original question, our customer needs a way to distinguish forecast delivery schedule lines that the buyers consider as "real forecast (type F)" vs. forecast delivery schedule lines that buyers consider as "real demand (type R)" (there is a field to make this distinction in the incoming messages). Is there anywhere I can store this information on the forecast delivery schedule line level ?

Another idea that came to my mind was to duplicate every sales scheduling agreements : one for type F forecast and one for type R forceast, but it was too complicated and difficult to maintain...