Dear Murali Mohan,
Schedule line Agreement :
Use the T.code VA31 (and choose Scheduleline agreement) : This agreement lets you to predetermine scheduling of different materials with in a given period of time (This is same like the other contracts).
First enter the material with quantity say for example Material 1 Qty: 40, go to Edit from the menu >> Item >> Schedule line
There select within the time period defined two dates, say for example on 12: 01: 2005 20 quantity and on 13: 01: 2005 another 20 (The qty has to be same as the one in the sales order) .
Once this is done you have created a schedule line agreement.
Call this agreement in your sales order (with reference) and use them.
Note: You will be able to deliver only 20 qty on the 12th and 20 qty on the 13th, even though the sales order is for qty 40
(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.
Do let me know in case of any queries.
Hope this helps you.
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Regards,
Rakesh
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