Scheduling Agreement: Planning in Frozen Period

Hi,
as you know you can set 2 fixed periods for scheduling agreements and configure SAP to create fixed or non fixed schedule lines inside the period.
Do you know if there is anyway to configure the system in order to prevent it to create new schedule lines inside this period?
I explain better: we define a contract with the vendor and enstablish that there is a frozen period of 90 days, meaning that from here to 90 days your delivery schedule can't change in any way. Therefore i set the first fixed period of SA to 90 days and tell the system to create fixed schedule lines in that time interval, so they won't be changed. But if a new requirement in the past or within the 90 days comes out and the MRP runs with automatic schedule lines creation enabled, then i get more fixed schedule lines in the past and contractual parameters are violated.
Any way to prevent this?
Thanks and best regards

Hi,
Thanks for all your replies, mentioned settings are already maintained and I did check all the queques for any error.
OLTP transfer setting is also maintained as immediate..so I don't need to transfer change pointers through report, as it should immediately be transferred to ECC.
My question is: We have report - create release (transaction - /SAPAPO/PWBSCH1) to release scheduling agreement, so I believe for scheduling agreement we need to use above transaction.
It seems to work, as I can see IDOC but its in failed status.
I have following question:
- Does scheduling line release work in a different way than purchase req, in APO. I did test with purchase req and it was immediately transferred to ECC.
Has somebody worked for schedule agreement scenario in APO?
Any insights would be appreciated.
Thanks
Sharad

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Hi,
the planned delivery time field on the material master is designed to be used when it cannot find the correct data from the info record. It should always contain the planned delivery time that should be applied if the vendor is not specified.
the same field on the info record should contain the planned delivery period for the appropriate vendor.
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I read a lot of articles on Planning Time Fence and the MRP Types P1 to P4 that goes with it. And I have tested it out in a Testing Environment.
But I can't get it to do what I need.
This is a normal planning with no PTF and MRP Type PD.
Sometimes we have false requirements that show up in the past due to human error. When this happens, MRP rolls during the night and adds a bunch of deliveries in the past to cover the requirement.
I wanted to use the PTF to prevent this. Meaning that extra deliveries would get added by MRP but after a PTF and not Firm deliveries. So that once the error is corrected, MRP rolls again and deleted all the extra deliveries it added.
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Hi Patricia,
The planning time fence is there to stop MRP from making changes to requirements that fall within the planning time fence.
Your planning time fence is a rolling period which shifts by 1 day each day and is calculated as of the current date. Yesterdays date is passed so it would not make sense for a planning time fence to use a date in the past to start it's calculation.
Everything that falls before the end of the planning time fence will not be changed by MRP and you will see that all these schedule lines in MD04 will have an * assigned meaning they are firmed for MRP.
If you manually add schedule lines in the past, the planning time fence will not stop you from doing this. The planning time fence will only stop MRP from making changes.
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If you manually add requirements to the scheduling agreement then MRP will never change these requirements as these are fixed requirements.
If your customer would add requirements in the past or you add independent requirements in the past and your current stock does not cover the requirements the system will generate schedule lines and will put these directly after the planning time fence with an exception message assigned to them.
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I always wonder why such questions arrive in the forum as this is something that can be very easily tested in the test environment.

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Currently I am planning in APO (SCM 5.1) and have scheduling agreement (type - APO Sch. Agree.)
Planning run created - Schedule lines and using transaction - /SAPAPO/PWBSCH1, create release.
Then I went to external procurement master data and clicked on SA release and executed Schedule line.
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Do let me know if I am missing any steps or any configuration which I might have missed.
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Hi,
Thanks for all your replies, mentioned settings are already maintained and I did check all the queques for any error.
OLTP transfer setting is also maintained as immediate..so I don't need to transfer change pointers through report, as it should immediately be transferred to ECC.
My question is: We have report - create release (transaction - /SAPAPO/PWBSCH1) to release scheduling agreement, so I believe for scheduling agreement we need to use above transaction.
It seems to work, as I can see IDOC but its in failed status.
I have following question:
- Does scheduling line release work in a different way than purchase req, in APO. I did test with purchase req and it was immediately transferred to ECC.
Has somebody worked for schedule agreement scenario in APO?
Any insights would be appreciated.
Thanks
Sharad

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Is is possible. Define a scheduling aggrement with mentioning the required delivery dates. This will convert as schedule lines.
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I Have a Scenario,
I need to Bulit a Laptop which is a Finished Material, and the Components like Hardisk, Processor, Ram, Casing, Monitor are my Rawmaterials. By using these rawmaterials we are building the parent material.
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Edited by: JAVEED AHAMED on Feb 12, 2010 8:34 AM

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Consumption based planning and Scheduling agreement are two different functions.
Consumption-based planning is based on past consumption values and uses the forecast or other statistical procedures to determine future requirements. The procedures in consumption-based planning do not refer to the master production schedule. That is, the net requirements calculation is not triggered either by planned independent requirements or dependent requirement. Instead, it is triggered when stock levels fall below a predefined reorder point or by forecast requirements calculated using past consumption values.
A form of outline purchase agreement under which materials are procured on predetermined dates within a certain time period.
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The schedule lines immediately have official character, i.e. they are immediately transmitted to the vendor the moment you save them (transmission time-spot 4 for messages). There is no release documentation in this case.
It cannot be explained in few lines. You need to study the below link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/75/ee1fa755c811d189900000e8322d00/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/7d/c2821c454011d182b40000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

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We have a planning horizon that goes out 1 year. However MRP stock requirements is showing planned orders for scheduling agreements that go out beyond the planning horizon.
Is there a reason MRP sees these MRP elements with dates well beyond the planning horizon of 1 year?

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Do you know is it possible to determine system so that MRP run will consider the planned delivery time from the scheduling agreement line instead of material master? Now the system read planned delivery time from material master when creating schedule lines automatically by MRP-run.
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This can be customized in
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide
-> Production
--> Material Requirements Planning
---> Planning
> Procurement Proposals
> Define External Procurement
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Does system consider the planned delivery time in case of Scheduling Agreement for Vendor like in normal Purchase order and requisition?
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Hi Experts
1. I have an requirement to post Invoice ver. for the Planned delivery cost (freight,customs duty,CVD etc) against the Scheduling Agreement just like Import Purchases with checking off the GR Based IV Indicator before doing the GR
I tried it but its giving me that no delivery costs are Planned in the Scheduling agreements it runs fine in case of the PO because PO is a time independent. Please inform how to post the same for schedule agreement with time dependent indicator on. I tried switching off the time dependent indicator and the system allowed, but my requirement is to Post I.V for the delivery cost with the time dependent indicator on.
Appreciate if you can suggest something in this case Urgently .
2. Aother issue is we have some uploaded Scheduling agreement from legacy system with Time dependent conditions. For this we need to post planned delivery cost in Miro. Since the system is not allowing to post, how to about for this. Shall we enter the delivery cost in unplanned delivery cost in Miro and post. Please suggest if any alternate solution is available.
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Hi,
As you know if the delivery cost document is not posted during GR the
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cost will be proposed in invoice only when there are records in EKBZ
table. The EKBZ table will be updated when delivery cost is posted
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system checks for values in amount field. Then only appropriate
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document will posted during GR and hence updates EKBZ table.
Solution to this issue is described in below steps,
1) reverse the invoice document
2) reverse GR document.
3) You have to give values in amount field in relevant conditions ZGDS
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problem is that the schedule lines (for external procurement) generated from MRP are not taking the "" Planned delivery time into consideration"". System is only taking the G.R processing time.
I have mentioned the Planned delivery time in .
1) Scheduling agreement for 1 day.
2) In material master for one day.
3) In info record 1 day.
e.g Suppose req date is 13.07.2008. MRP run date 4.07.2008.
a) Planned delivery time = 1 day . B) G .R processing time = 3 days.
Now when i run the MRP on 4.07.2008.
Schedule line is generated on - 10.07.2008
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1) Scheduling agreement for 1 day.
2) In material master for one day.
3) In info record 1 day.
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I have one querry .Where does (in Database table) , the condition values and validity periods of a Scheduling agreement stored .
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