SCHEDULING AGREEMENT

[Former Member]

Hi .....

can any body tell me some thing about Scheduling Agreements, how many types are there? and how to create it? at what time it will be usefull?

thnaks in advance

R.Reddy

[Former Member]

Dear Ramana,

there are different types of scheduling agreements in SD:

- scheduling agreements without delivery schedules (like DS, or LP in German). This kind of scheduling agreements is similar to the standard order, but has a target quantity and multiple schedule lines to each item, which should be created manually.

- scheduling agreements with delivery schedules, here there are:

a) 'normal' scheduling agreements with delivery schedules (like LZ in the standard), the flow here: scheduling agreement => delivery

b) scheduling agreements with delivery orders (like LZM in the standard), the flow here: scheduling agreement LZM => delivery order TAM (is the order) => delivery

c) scheduling agreements with external agent service (like LK in the standard), the flow here: scheduling agreement LK => delivery to the consigment storage location => external agent delivery order ED (is the order) => delivery

d) scheduling agreements for self-billing process (like LZS in the standard), they are similar to LZ, but can be invoiced via self-billing IDOC only.

e) in Automotive system there are also specual scheduling agreements for JIT process.

All scheduling agreements can be created in transaction VA31, changed in VA32, displayed in VA33.

For sceduling agreement with delivery schedules you can use both forecast and JIT (Just-in-Time) delivery schedules. And you can indicate "MRP for DS type" (VBAK-ABDIS) from which schedule and when the requirements and deliveries could be created.

The first steps in VA31: give the sales area and scheduling agreement type, ENTER, give the sold-to party, PO number, material number, ENTER. Save.

The scheduling agreement is created.

To create the forecast schedule: VA32, mark the item, press the button "Forecast DS" below and then you can indicate the delivery schedule number, delivery schedule date and create the schedule lines. Save.

Similarly you can create the JIt schedule, but then you have to indicate JIT horizon, until the schedule is valid.

Deliveries can be created by a normal way.

If you create a new delivery schedule, you have to use the buttons "New DS w/o proposal" or "New DS with proposal". lease take into account that creation of a new delivery schedule means that the old delivery schedule will be completely overwritten.

I hope that this info helps you to start with scheduling agreements. Further, you can "play" with them to test your specific processes.

I hope that this info helps you further.

Kind regards,

Akmal Vakhidov

Development Support IMS ERP SD, SAP, Walldorf/Germany

[Former Member]

Hi ramana.,

There are 6 types of scheduling agreemnts they are LP,LZ,LZM,LK,LZS,LZJ.

Regards

Narayana

[Former Member]

hI

(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.

chedule 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

[Former Member]

hi

scheduling agreements are outline agreements that the business has with a customer.

they contain delivery dates and quantities to be delivered.

these dates are then entered as schedule lines in the delivery schedule of the agreement. The scheduling agreement is processed by delivering the schedule lines as they become due.

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these agreements are useful for bulk buyers suppose NIMS enters the contract with cipla for supply 12000 medicines for a year and supply 1000 every month 1st.