Schedule lines firming

[Former Member]

Hi,

In MD04 we can able to see the * indicator for some of the schedulelines which got firmed due to the firm zone period. But when we look into the same schedule lines in ME38 fixing indicator is not set for the same schedule lines..

Kindly explain these two indicator difference. Also clarify lines whcih are fimred due to the firm zone peroid have the fix indicator in ME38 or not.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Did you get the answer for your Question,if so can you please share the solution

Regards,

Balu

[fortian]

Maybe you manually modified the schedule line in just for that the * indicator appears. Not because the firm zone.

Just guessing...

[former_member201758]

hello Rajprabhu,

The scheduling agreement schedule line is not firmed physically:The

fixing indicator (EKET-FIXKZ) is empty for this schedule line.

This can be checked in Transaction ME39 or with Transaction SE16 for

table EKET for the corresponding schedule line.

In the MRP group of the corresponding material, it is set that only

transferred scheduling agreement schedule lines should be regarded as

firmed (Transaction OPPR, firming scheduling agreement, Firm

transmSLines [Field XFAT1]).

In this case, only such scheduling agreement schedule lines are firmed

which were transferred by message transmission through purchasing to the

vendor. (see also the F1 help for the field).

However, the system displays all scheduling agreement schedule lines as

fixed in Transaction MD04 within the release period and assigns them

with a star ('*'), that is, this applies also scheduling agreement

schedule lines with a transmitted quantity of 0.

In contrast to the above, these schedule lines are not displayed as

fixed in Transaction MD05 or in the planning with 'Display result'.

Note 354164 explains this system behavior.

For the planning, the transmitted quantity is considered as fixed if

this is correspondingly set in the MRP group of the material.

If the transmitted quantity was updated correctly, it should be

contained in field AMENG of table EKET.

By using Transaction SE16 for this table and the corresponding schedule

line (scheduling agreement number EBELN, item EBELP, schedule line

ETENR), you should be able to find out whether a transmitted quantity

was written to the database and a fixing can be carried out

correspondingly in amount of the transmitted quantity or whether no

update of the transmitted quantity occurred (see below Notes 82169,

117093, 134356).

First, the system behaves as intended.

It should be checked whether the function, which is controlled by this

indicator, is actually wanted this way (to firm only scheduling

agreement schedule lines which actually have been transferred).

In addition, problems can occur in purchasing when the printed quantity

is updated (AMENG).This symptom can especially occur after you have

upgraded from a release < Release 4.0A to a release > Release 4.0B.

In this regard, see the related Notes 82169, 117093 and 134356.

Sanjeev