EDI delivery forecast response from an inbound delivery schedule required

[Former Member]

We have a trading partner that will be sending us an EDIFACT DELFOR from which we will create a delivery forecast scheduling agreement (document type LZ). The trading partner is requesting and EDIFACT DELFOR in return as a delivery forecast response. The response should be generated 'by comparing the current delivery schedule against our most recent supply snapshot from our planning system.' (from the trading partner's Impelmentation Guide for the transaction)

I am trying to determine how the SAP output will be generated. Is it header output? What output type? I have searched SAP online doc (help.sap.com - Scheduling Agreement for Component Suppliers), SAP OSS, and this forum. I have found some limited documentation regarding schedule agreement confirmations, but that is in SNC.

Thank you for any insight you can provide.

Tim

[Jelena · Accepted solution]

Quite honestly, I have never even heard about the delivery forecast documents, but if it is within the standard SD realm then output configuration is exactly the same for almost any kind of document.

Based on your questions, I'd recommend to read more about EDI/ALE first - Google 'IDoc Cookbook' or invest in the ALE/EDI book by Arvind Nagpal (search on Amazon).

I'm guessing 99% it will be the header output (have never seen any item outputs). The output type does not matter, you can always create your own in 5 minutes. What you need is to find if there is a message type and IDoc type you could use. Sometimes if you Google 'EDI 850 IDoc', for example (where 850 is an EDI standard) you'll get everything you need.

If there is nothing in standard SAP, you'll need to write your own programs. I would recommend getting a qualified consultant for that, it will be money well spent.

Cheers.

[Jelena]

It is usual that only added/changed lines appear in the IDoc that results from a document change. If you prefer otherwise, it would have to be custom programming most likely.

There are no right or wrong IDocs/messages - whatever works for you. Sometimes two different IDocs provide the same result. In the A.Nagpal's book the IDoc/message type for the scheduling agreement is DELFOR01/ DELINS, which corresponds to EDI 830 (allegedly).

I've never worked with the scheduling agreements myself, so I can't tell for sure. You might want to Google 'scheduling agreement IDoc'.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your response Jelena.

I am trying to determine if there is a standard message type/IDoc for a delivery forecast response output from our LZ schedule agreement. Basically, for each inbound schedule release for the LZ document, we need to generate a response.

I have tested the output using the message type/IDoc of ORDRSP/ORDERS01. This output was close to what we require, but only the confirmed schedule lines are output on the IDoc. We need to include all schedule lines. I can modify user exits in IDOC_OUTPUT_ORDRSP function module to include all of them, but before I do, I want to confirm that the ORDRSP is the best message type for my requirement.

Thanks again,

Tim