Order V/s Schd Agree

[Former Member]

Hi,

Pls clear me if we can define schedule lines in Srder then why there is need for Scheduling Agreement?

What is the diff. bet both?

Thank You,

Gopal Sharma

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The difference with respect to Scheduling agreement & sales order is a schedule can be plannedin scheduling agreement & we need not manually go & create aseparate schedule line in case of scheduling agreement. but is try to attain the same functionality from sales order, then in that case we will have to go to schedule line & change it manually. We will have to maintain the schedules in schedule line manuallly, which is not required in Scheduling agreement.

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Rajesh Banka

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[Former Member]

Dear Gopal,

quite generally, you can have multiple schedule lines ordered to an item in the standard order, too. It is not forbidden (exception, complete delivery or delivery groups case).

The main different of schedule line type 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.

It is the main difference.

I hope, this info helps you a little bit further.

Kind regards,

Akmal Vakhidov

Development Support SD, SAP, Walldorf/Germany

P.S. All said above is valid only for scheduling agreements with delivery schedules (VBAK-ABDIS isd not INITIAL). I hoper, you mean these agreements in your question.

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[Former Member]

hi,

Schedule agreements allow you to have 2 different sets of schedule lines (VBEP-ABART). One Forecast & other JIT.

Forecast forwards the schedule lines to planning and JIT passes them to shipping . They can be identical or different.

Typically these are used for component supply customers (namely Automotive). The customer will provide you 4-10 weekly cars (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.

in case of a normal sales order we have only one schedule lines

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Regards,

Murali

[former_member935123]

Hi Gopal,

a sales order will have only one scheldule lines and a schedule line defines the delivery date and quantity. where as in scheduling agreement, u can give multiple schedle lines which means different delivery dates and quantities.

cheers,

anil.

[Former Member]

A scheduling agreement will have multiple schedule lines containing delivery quantities and specific dates on when these items will be delivered to the customer. It is generally used when you have an agreement with a customer to supply a certain quantity of material periodically over a period of time (say every month for 2 years).

A sales order will not be able to provide this functionality for example if I need to supply a customer every month a certain quantity of material for 2 years.

Regards

Chandra Sekhar