Hi, I have set an operating hours (e.g. 05:59:59 to 16:59:59 Japan time) in the timestream calendar in APO to control the material availability date calculation.
The strange thing is when I do a backwards scheduling by keying in a future date, the material availability date is off by a date, i.e. another day prior to transportation. We were expecting the date to be just a day before the requested delivery date.
E.g.
Date of entry: 27.06.2017
Requested delivery date: 30.06.2017
Transit time: 1 day
The system will propose
Material availability date: 28.06.2017
GI/Loading/Transportation date: 28.06.2017
Delivery date: 30.06.2017
When I check the scheduling log, I can see that the pick date starts from
19:59:59 (it is 19:59:59 because it is converted from Japan to NZ time where NZ is 3 hours ahead).
However, shipment start date is a day after the picking date. Few questions here:
1. Why does the system start the pick time from 19:59:59 and not 07:59:59 (converted to NZST) which is the beginning of the day?
2. Re the shipment start date, why would the system not continue from the 28.06.2017? I suspect it is due to the pick up date/time starting from the end of the operating hours set?
If the requested delivery date is set to 27.06.2017, the material availability date is set to 29.06.2017 00:00:00 instead of 28.06.2017 19:59:59 and hence the shipment date is set to 29.06.2017.
Can someone please shed some lights on this?
When I tested ATP check on a material that is only subject to ATP check in ECC (non-APO), the material availability date is set correctly to 28.06.2017.
Thanks in advance for any help given.
Regards
SF
Found the cause of the problem. This is due to different time zones used. The time zone in the location in APO is different from the timestream.