Use this activity to define the supplier schedule granularity. This defines the frequency of declaration of a schedule quantity and the time period that the quantity represents. The schedule template also defines the amount of periods, their duration in days, and whether the data entered at the specified period will result in a purchase order line or not.
Schedule templates are used whenever the supplier schedules are generated automatically from either Master Scheduling or MRP. However, the template is also used when the schedule is created manually, if the answer is yes to the question: Create template schedule including previous authorized deliveries?. This question appears in a dialog when saving the schedule header.
The template includes the following features:
Example of usage:
Supplier Schedule Template
| Horizon No | Number of Periods | Period Size | Unit | Schedule Line Type | Delivery Authorized? |
| 1 | 5 | 1 | Days | Firm | Yes |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Days | Fabrication | No |
| 3 | 1 | 20 | Days | Raw | No |
| 4 | 1 | 60 | Days | Plan | No |
| Date | Duration in Days | Schedule Line Type | Delivery Authorized? |
| 1 | 1 | Firm | Yes |
| 2 | 1 | Firm | Yes |
| 3 | 1 | Firm | Yes |
| 4 | 1 | Firm | Yes |
| 5 | 1 | Firm | Yes |
| 6 | 5 | Fabrication | No |
| 11 | 5 | Fabrication | No |
| 16 | 5 | Fabrication | No |
| 21 | 5 | Fabrication | No |
| 26 | 20 | Raw | No |
| 46 | 60 | Plan | No |
You can choose to utilize a delivery pattern along with the schedule template. The delivery pattern is used to determine detailed scheduling dates; you also can spread daily requirements into multiple deliveries within the day.
It is mandatory to enter a supplier schedule template.
Schedule line types must be entered before you create a schedule template.
Once the template is created, the schedule template is attached to the supplier schedule agreement for each planning and call-off schedules. This is carried to the agreement part and is used to dictate the dates on which quantities are ordered.