Delivery Scheduling & Availability Check

Dear Experts,
During delivery scheduling process; SAP system first performs backward scheduling by taking requested delivery date into consideration, then calculating some dates in order to determine the date at which material availability should run. My question is what are these dates and what is the meaning of each date?
What is the difference between Transportation Planning date/time, Transportation Lead Time, and Transit Time?
Does material staging refers to pick/pack time?
Does the system use GI processing time (as in goods receipt - GR processing time)?
What is the difference between calculating some date using calendar days, or workdays? Does calendar days include off days like weekends, and holidays?
Regards,
Abdelaziz

Abdelaziz
I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say 'Transportation planning time'. Transportation planning is usually considered to be an event (deadline), and not a duration. The system will calculate a Transportation planning date. Logically is the latest time you can make arrangements with your carriers for transportation.
Perhaps you are talking about route scheduling, and in the case where the transportation lead time is optionally stated (and scheduled) in terms of HH:MM rather than the more common DD + decimal.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/dd/560de1545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm
What is the difference between calculating some date using calendar days, or workdays? Does calendar days include off days like weekends, and holidays?
You are getting pretty basic here. You might want to consider taking a basic PP class to gain the knowledge you seek. Online forums are a poor way to learn the basics.
Factory calendars are used throughout SAP to manage date-type data. Their use is not restricted to just factories. In the case of shipment and delivery scheduling, the system will usually try to determine and use one or more factory calendars to determine deadlines.
In configuration, you create and maintain factory calendars. SCAL. These calendars contain data about, among other things, workdays and non-workdays. The calendars are then assigned to objects that will be scheduled. Most date calculations conducted in Delivery and Shipment scheduling are based upon workdays, e.g. only working days are used for calculating deadlines, and deadlines will not normally fall upon a non-working day. For instance, a Plant will have a factory calendar assigned to it, that calendar will be used to calculate certain production and material availability dates. A shipping point will have a factory calendar assigned to it, that will be used to calculate certain shipping related dates. A Route will have a factory calendar assigned to it, which will be used to calculate certain shipping related dates. Each object can have a different calendar, to reflect the actual availability of the object being scheduled.
Best Regards,
DB49

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