Supplier Scheduling lets you exchange business documents electronically with trading partners through EDI (Electronic Data Interachange). EDI subscribes to standard formats for conducting these electronic transactions to minimize manual effort, speed data processing and ensure accuracy.
The following EDI transactions facilitate the Supplier Scheduling process:
Planning Schedule (830)
Shipping Schedule (862)
Planning Schedule (830)
The Planning Schedule allows for the electronic transmission of forecast and material release information between organizations. You can use a Planning Schedule as follows:
Forecast
Forecast with the buyer's authorization to commit resources such as labor or material
Forecast with order release capability
Forecast (830)
You can use a Planning Schedule (830) as a Forecast without order release capability, and optionally include material authorization. If you choose Forecast, you can use the Shipping Schedule (862) as an order release mechanism to show firm quantities. You may not need to archive if material authorizations are not included.
Material Release (830)
You can use a Planning Schedule (830) as a Material Release that conveys forecast and order release information to specific supplier sites for all production items sourced from that supplier site to a specific ship-to location. If you use the Planning Schedule (830) as an Material Release, you eliminate the need to print blanket releases, and may also eliminate the need for a Shipping Schedule.
Material Releases for all productive material suppliers are generated at specified daily or weekly intervals to reflect the planning data of a new MRP regeneration.
You must archive Material Releases for the entire CUM Period so that they remain available for inquiry and reporting purposes.
Shipping Schedule (862)
The Shipping Schedule refines the information contained on the Planning Schedule and supports Just-In-Time Delivery (JIT). The Shipping Schedule includes near term shipment information that is collected from open purchase orders and blanket order releases for scheduled items associated with the supplier site.
Daily buckets convey requirements, as opposed to the weekly and monthly buckets typically used on the Planning Schedule.
You must archive Shipping Schedules for the entire CUM Period so that they remain available for inquiry and reporting purposes.
This table describes possible solutions to issues that you might encounter when you are not receiving schedules or release quantities, cannot build schedules manually or print shipping and planning reports.
| Issue | Possible Solution |
|---|---|
| Not Receiving Schedules | Assign a scheduler in Supplier Scheduling Approved Supplier List. To run a planning AutoSchedule, you must enter the scheduler's name. The scheduler's name must match the scheduler's name in the ASL Supplier Schedule option because the AutoScheduler's name is tied to the ASL's scheduler's name in Purchasing. If you do not include a scheduler's name in the ASL, you will not receive schedules. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure your lead times are not compressed. If they are, that is if any of those items are inside its lead time, you will not receive a schedule for ANY item on the BOM. |
| Not Receiving Release Quantities | If a blanket purchase order is to be used for a source document, you must navigate to the purchase order screen, click the Terms tab, and select the Supply Agreement box. |
| Cannot Build Schedules Manually | If the enabling planning schedules, enable shipping schedules, and enable AutoSchedule are selected, you will not be able to build schedules manually. Uncheck these schedules to build a schedule manually. |
| Cannot print Shipping or Planning Schedule Reports | Ensure that you confirm your schedule before you print it. |