This panel displays all delivery schedules retrieved through DI or created manually.
When customers send delivery schedules using any method defined in the DI method table, the delivery schedules are retrieved, and updated in this file, via the Work with delivery schedule in DI program.
Options
| Header | Select this option to view a record. |
| Items | Select this option to display the included items. |
Selection fields
- Customer
- Displays the customer who sent the delivery schedule.
- Delivery schedule no
- Upd
- Indicates if the delivery schedule is updated. If set to YES, it means that at least one sales order has been created from this schedule.
- Hst
- Indicates if the delivery schedule is updated as history. If set to YES, it means that at least one delivery schedule has been received after this delivery schedule.
- Sts
- Displays the delivery schedule status.
Status Description * An asterisk is displayed if the system found any errors when the delivery schedule was retrieved. On the Header details panel (accessed by entering the Header option on this panel) the text in the Error message field states the reason for the error. D “D” is displayed if the delivery schedule is marked for deletion. Note: The field is blank if no errors exist on any sales order, or if the schedule is not marked for deletion.
- Warn
- Indicates if the delivery schedule has some kind of warning on it.
Inbound delivery schedule enquiry, Header details (DIR83004)
This panel displays detailed information about the delivery schedule header.
- Customer number
- Displays the customer number of the delivery schedule.
- Delivery schedule no
- Status
- Displays the delivery schedule status.
Status Description * An asterisk is displayed if the system found any errors when the delivery schedule was retrieved. The text in the Error message field on this panel, states the reason for the error. D “D” is displayed if the delivery schedule is marked for deletion. - Error message
- If the Status field displays an asterisk (*), this field displays a message text, indicating the error(s) that occurred when the delivery schedule was retrieved. The message text tells you what correction to make.
- Handler
- Displays a code from the Signature table, indicating the handler’s reference of this delivery schedule. The handler was defined when the delivery schedule was received in Work with deliver schedule in DI.
- Schedule start date
- Displays the start date of the delivery schedule, i.e. from when the schedule is valid.
- Order type
- Displays an order type from the Sales order type table, indicating the order type to be used when creating orders from this schedule.
- Schedule end date
- Displays the end date of the delivery schedule.
- Warehouse
- Displays a code from the Warehouse table, indicating from which warehouse the goods should be dispatched.
- Firmed hor. end date
- The firmed horizon end date defines that all orders with a dispatch date up to this date should be considered as confirmed, and will thus be created. In other words, they are allowed to be dispatched without any other confirmation from the customer.
The system will calculate the date as follows:
Schedule start date + Firmed horizon (days) Note: If this field is left blank, the effect will be that no orders will be created.
- Reference
- Displays the name of the contact person for this delivery schedule.
- Shipment marking
- Displays the text for the shipment marking describing the items on the delivery schedule. The shipment marking will be updated on the sales order header when orders are created.
- Delivery address no
- Displays a valid address number from the Business partner file for the customer. If no address number is defined on the delivery schedule, the address defined as default dispatch address in the Business partner file will be used for the orders created.
- Previous del. sched
- Displays the number of the previous delivery schedule for this customer, if stated by the customer.
- Creation date
- Displays when this delivery schedule was created.
- Warning, total chg %
- Indicates if the total quantity on this delivery schedule has been changed with more than the percentage allowed, compared with the total quantity on the previous delivery schedule received from this customer.
The percentage allowed can be defined in either:
- Business partner file, the Warn. limit %, total field on the DI documents panel, for the customer,
or
- DIS control file, the Warn. limit %, total field
The warning limit percentage defined in the Business partner file will override the warning limit percentage defined in the DIS control file.
- Business partner file, the Warn. limit %, total field on the DI documents panel, for the customer,
- Creation time
- Displays the point of time when this delivery schedule was created.
- Warning, chg % line
- Indicates if there are any line on this delivery schedule for which the quantity has been changed with more than the percentage allowed, compared with the same line on the previous delivery schedule received from this customer.
The warning limit percentage can be defined in either:
- Business partner file, the Warn. limit %, line field on the DI documents panel, for the customer,
or
- DIS control file, the Warn. limit %, line field
The warning limit percentage defined in the Business partner file will override the warning limit percentage defined in DIS control file.
- Business partner file, the Warn. limit %, line field on the DI documents panel, for the customer,
- Manually created
- Indicates if this delivery schedule was created manually, i.e. not received through DI.
- Warning, not deliv
- Indicates if there are any line on the last delivery schedule, which has not been dispatched yet. If YES, this means that at least one sales order line created from a previous delivery schedule exists, for which the following apply:
- status is 40 or lower
- dispatch time is earlier than the Schedule start date on this delivery schedule
- History
- Indicates if the delivery schedule is updated as history. If set to YES, it means that at least one delivery schedule has been received after this delivery schedule.
- Warning, last deliv
- Indicates if one of the following applies for at least one line on the delivery schedule:
- The transport note number (stated by the customer) for any of the last three dispatches, does not correspond to any transport note number updated in DC1 for this customer.
- The dispatch date (stated by the customer) for any of the last three dispatches, does not correspond to any dispatch date updated in DC1 for this customer.
- The quantity (stated by the customer) for any of the last three dispatches, does not correspond to any quantity updated as dispatched in DC1.
- Net/gross
- Displays 1 (net forecast) or 2 (gross forecast), indicating the type of delivery schedule.
Net forecast
Delivery schedules with net forecast, contains information about the quantities of the items to dispatch, including dispatch dates. Both the quantity to deliver and when to deliver is stated by the customer. You as the supplier should follow the schedule and deliver the goods required.Gross forecast
Delivery schedules with gross forecast, contains information about the current stock situation for items at the customer’s warehouse, including a minimum and maximum stock level. In addition, the customer gives information about the sales forecast in the future. When the delivery schedule is retrieved via the Work with delivery schedules in DI menu item, the system will process the figures in the delivery schedule and create sales order lines in needed. You as the supplier is responsible of calculating the quantity to be delivered and when to deliver. The general term of this handling is VMI, Vendor Management Inventory.Calculating new actual inventory
The following figures are defined:
- Minimum inventory = 20
- Maximum inventory = 40
- Actual inventory = 28
Sales forecast date In warehouse On customer order “New” actual inventory Comments/Action 2012-05-19 28 7 21 (28-7) Minimum inventory = 20, no delivery to customer. 2012-05-26 21 8 13 (21-8) New actual inventory under minimum inventory level. Create order line with qty 27 (40-13) to get New actual inventory 40 (27+13). 2012-06-03 40 10 30 (40-10) Minimum inventory = 20, no delivery to customer. 2012-06-10 30 8 22 (30-8) Minimum inventory = 20, no delivery to customer. 2012-06-17 22 7 15 (22-7) New actual inventory under minimum inventory level. Create order line with qty 25 (40-15) to get New actual inventory 40 (25+15). Note: All figures, i.e. Minimum inventory, Maximum inventory, Actual inventory and the Sales forecasts are defined by the customer.
- Warning, item miss
- Indicates if there were any items on the previous delivery schedule which are not included in this delivery schedule. Note: This check is only done if it is activated for the customer, i.e. if the Warning, item missing field in the Business partner file is set to YES.
- Warning, new item
- Indicates if there are any items on this delivery schedule which were not included in the previous delivery schedule. If set to YES then the new item will be displayed in the delivery schedule without any quantity to deliver.