SAP MM: Monitoring the Transmission of Delivery Schedules using SAP MM Outline Purchase Agreements With Vendors

Use

You can monitor delivery schedules created under a scheduling agreement. In the case of scheduling agreements with release documentation, use the latter documentation. See Displaying Release Documentation for a Scheduling Agreement. The following functions are available for scheduling agreements without release documentation.

Features

The scheduling screen for scheduling agreements without release documentation shows you how often changes to the schedule for an item (schedule updates) have already been transmitted to the vendor. The system assigns a consecutive number to each of the successively updated versions of the schedule transmitted to the vendor.

The following two fields are provided on the scheduling screen for scheduling agreement items:

Last transmission (Date/time-spot)

Date and time the last version of the schedule was transmitted.

Next transmission no.

Identifies the current status of the schedule, which is to be transmitted to the vendor next.
This consecutive number at item level should not be confused with a transmission number (e.g. EDI) that applies to the complete scheduling agreement.

In a scheduling agreement with several items, the individual items may have different change statuses. The SAP system manages the consecutive numbers for the changes affecting the schedules for each item separately.

In the case of scheduling agreements with only one item, the consecutive number for schedule updates transmitted to the vendor is the same as the transmission number for the complete scheduling agreement.

A new scheduling agreement has an item with 1000 tons of Steel 1. The item has the following schedule, which has already been transmitted to the vendor.

100 tons
50 tons
80 tons
20 tons

When you next display or change the delivery schedule, it has the consecutive number 2. You now change the quantity for 30 May from 80 to 100. The schedule still has the number 2.
The system only automatically increases this number after you have transmitted the schedule to the vendor. After transmission, the Next transmission no. field contains the number 3 as identification number for the next change (update).