Messages for Scheduling Agreement Releases

Use

The system can generate a separate message for each release (delivery schedule for transmission to a vendor) created for a scheduling agreement item. That is to say, the vendor receives one document per scheduling agreement release. This enables you to output individual SA releases or re-output an already transmitted release.

It is also possible to create just one message per scheduling agreement. This message transmitted to the vendor then includes all releases relating to all scheduling agreement items (i.e. the vendor receives just one document per scheduling agreement).

Prerequisites

In order for a separate message to be generated for each SA release, you must set the Release message indicator in Customizing for Purchasing under Define Message Schemas for Scheduling Agreement Release/Urging Letter ® Assign Schema: Scheduling Agreement Release/Urging Letter.

If messages relating to a scheduling agreement exist which have not yet been outputted, and you then set this indicator, you can still view the non-outputted messages under Header ® Messages. The newly generated messages are listed in the release documentation.

In order for scheduling agreement releases to be transmitted to vendors as messages, you must note the following points:

• You must designate just one message type as the "main message type" for each SA release type (FRC or JIT delivery schedule) in Customizing for Purchasing, and set the indicator A (update print-dependent data) for this message type. You set this indicator using the fine-tuned control facility for the message type.
• All releases must always be created with the main message type because the system will otherwise not update the print-dependent data. This is particularly important if you are working with different message types.

You send SA releases to the vendor with the main message type LPH1. You provide the forwarder or carrier with a copy (message type LPH2) and create a printout for your own files (message type LPH3).

If you send SA releases to the majority of your vendors as printouts (i.e. in hardcopy form) and have an EDI arrangement with just a few of them, you can create message records for the main message type:

• At document type level with the transmission medium "Print", and
• At vendor/purchasing organization/EDI level with the transmission medium "EDI" for the EDI vendors.

Do not set the change indicator in the message overview. A set indicator has no effect in the case of scheduling agreement releases. As a general rule, the system outputs all releases that have not yet been transmitted.

Further information is available in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Purchasing (under Messages) and under Messages.

Activities

You can display the individual messages for the releases as follows:

1. From the Scheduling view, choose Item
® SA release docu.
2. Select the desired release.
3. Choose Goto ® Messages per release.

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• Displaying Release Docu. for Scheduling Agreement
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