Switching Factory Calendars

Hello,
I have recently discovered that we are using the wrong factory calendar for both SD and PM. The wrong one may have been used to generate the scheduled work hours in HR too. We have 2 different custom calendars that need to be used - neither is currently used. One was designed for our 24/7 treatment plant operations. The other was for designed for HR, SD, and equipment with maintenance that is on a typical M-F, excluding holidays. Our current configuration is that all equipment is in one plant.
Would there be any issues switching the calenders in SPRO for SD and PM? After reading many other forum posts, I understand that only one calendar may be assigned to a plant. Is there any problems with using a different calendar in the maintenance plans than the plant calendar?
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi YM,
The calendar would be assigned to the plant in Logistics and in SD for the sales organization. With only one calendar to be able to be used, we would be selecting the one with the M-F, excluding holidays. Ironically, PS already uses the correct calendar.
Based on your reply, it would be best to just use one calendar and not allow the maintenance plans to use a different one.
When the plant and sales organization calendars are changed via SPRO, will this create any problems other than having to change the current maintenance plans to use the new calendar?
Thanks.

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Hi Jurgen,
from the logical point of view sounds reasonable but....
1) even if I didn't fully debug the program (otherwise I guess I would know the answer ) looks like MVER is the only one considered in terms of usage
2) even if you forget point 1 (I could obviously be wrong) you're missing one information that I didn't mention: our usage (or consumption if you prefer) is 98% done from Monday to Friday; sometimes we do something on Saturday but this is kind of an exception.
Based on the above, despite the factory calendar is setup on 7 working days a week, our material usage is basically done on 5 working days a week. Described this way you'll immediately understand that, even if the program reads the data based on the number of working days, changing the calendar from 7 to 5 should cause a decrease of only 2-3%, in our case changing the factory calendar from 7 to 5 working days is causing a decrease of 30% to 50%.
I believe the program is reading the table in a different way based on the factory calendar, I'll try to give you an example:
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01   Mon       10
02   Tue        20
03   Wed      30
04   Thu        40
05   Fri          50     ---> total week 1 far 150
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In your case, switching to 5 working days a week, it should deliver usage only for Monday to Friday, which is 1658 - (2+6)=1650    (i.e. difference is peanuts)
As I said, I couldn't get to the end of the debug, but my impression was that, switching to 5 working days a week (based on the above example) the program would read 10 "days" so from Monday 01 to Wednesday 10, in that case the total would be 1658 - (4005006) = 752 (now difference is huge...).
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Calculations are explained in SAP online help
[Transportation and Delivery Scheduling|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/dd/5607e7545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm]
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