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Former Member
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Hi All,

Can i have the differences between Contracts and Scheduling Agreements..?

Giri.

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Thanks to All.

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Hi.,

Go through this

Both of them contains schedule line, price, quantity.

There are a couple major differences:

(1) - Schedule agreements allow you to have 2 different sets of schedule lines (VBEP-ABART). Standard SAP you should have two sets of tabs - of schedule lines. One Forecast & the other JIT. Forecast forwards the schedule lines to planning (seen in MD04) and JIT passes them to shipping (VL10). They can be identical or different. Typically these are used for component supplier customers (namely Automotive). The customer will provide you 4-10 weekly buckets (usually a

Monday date) of future forecast qtys. Also send you 1-2 weeks of individual FIRM ship dates - which are entered on the JIT. It comes down to the customer not knowing exactly what they need next week, but they don't want to suprise you with a large order qty, where your lead times are 5+ days. The forecasted qtys they sent last week should account for this.

(2) Cumulative Quantities are tracked and influence how the schedule agreement passes requirements to both forecasting and shipping. These qtys are sometimes requested by the customer on ASNs. Cumulative qtys reset at year end unless you've got a customer calendar or you've modified standard SAP userexits to not reset.

Schedule agreements are very nice when the customer sends EDI data (830s = forecast or 862s = JITs). Outside of that they can really cause trouble regarding daily maintenance, missing requirements, cum qty corrections, year end processing, etc.

One alternative would be to use customer independent requirements - entering the weekly, monthly forecasting qtys and entering standard sales orders (with or without multiple schedule lines) to represent the true firm qtys.

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Narayana

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hi,

The main difference between contracts and scheduling agreements are,

a) contracts have validity period , fixed quantity and fixed price.

ex: during period june07 to jun 08 ,100 tonnes of oil at rs 50/lit neeed to be supplied.

b) where as in scheduling agreements the organisation must stick to the dates and quantities with out fail.

ex: june 10 th 50 tonnes oil and so on...

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gupta.

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Dear Giri,

the scheduling agreements are intended to use the timely unrestricted delivery process in the supplier industry (mostly in the car manufacturing). It is a standard agreement to which the car manufacturer sends regularly delivery schedules (call-offs), which goods, when and in which quantities should er delivered. There are different delivery scenarious here (corresponding scheduling agreemently like LZ, LZM, LK, LZS etc.)

Contracts are standard agreements for determined (quasi-restricted) delivery or service process: there are quantity contracts, value contracts and service contracts. From the user's point of view: contracts are processed via transactions VA41, VA42, VA43, the scheduling agreements - in VA31, VA32, VA33.

In difference to all other sales documant types the scheduling agreements have not only header, item and schedule lines, but have also additional level - delivery schedule (between item and schedule lines).

From the technical point of view (transactioon VOV8) the scheduling agreements have the sales document category 'E' or 'F', the contracts - 'G'.

If you will start with the transactions VA31 and VA41 you can easily see, what differences are existing between these sales documents.

I hope, this information will help you a little bit further.

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Akmal Vakhidov

Development Support SAP, Walldorf/Germany

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HI Giridhar.,

The difference between contracts & shedule line agreement is out line agreement line agreement the delivery dates or schedulke lines are fixed

But in Contracts the delivery dates are not scheduled,A customer can purchase this much amoount of goods from date to till date Say 1 year

FOR EX- Scedule line agreement- A customer asks client t o send the good X on every week MOnday for a year,This is schedule line agreement

Contract- A customer and cmpany gets in to contract so that customer can purchase X goods of value 100000 At ant time in a year

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Narayana

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