Use this activity to enter a supplier schedule agreement header.
A supplier schedule agreement represents a long-term business contract between buying and selling organizations, i.e., a company and a supplier for which schedules are used to communicate demands. It is used to clearly define a contractual basis for supplier deliveries to be performed in a repetitive environment.
General agreement terms can be defined and used as default values when agreements for parts are created. When parts are connected to an agreement, the general agreement terms will be copied. You can change these values to specific agreement terms per part. An agreement defines the parties involved, the items to be supplied, and the internal sites to which deliveries are made. It also defines the types of schedules to be used for communication and the various options for managing them. The supplier scheduling agreement can cover multiple sites within your company as well as multiple supplier sites.
The agreement concerns the logistical flow of goods more than it does the pricing of the goods. This is the main difference between a supplier schedule agreement and a purchase agreement.
An agreement can have any of the following status: Planned, Active, Negotiated, or Closed.
The supplier must be entered in the supplier record found in the IFS/Purchasing (and also in IFS/Enterprise).
As result of this entry, a supplier schedule agreement header is entered and is set in the Planned status. The data is used as the default agreement settings, and can be fine-tuned for every part within the supplier schedule agreement part options.