Define Site to Customer Supply Chain Parameters

Explanation

This activity is used to manage supply chain parameters, i.e., ship-via codes, routes, lead times, distance, expected shipping costs, shipment type and shipment location, for deliveries from internal sites within your corporation to external customers.

There are several work options from different views for the same object(s) when you work with supply chain parameters. You can chose from three different views:

The information in the overview page for the site-to-customer relations, is exactly the same as in the corresponding tabs in the matrixes, the only difference is the way the information is displayed. This means, that a parameter has to be updated in only one of the views. The matrix pages provide the ability to work with all relations for an object, i.e., from a focal point, from a single page.

When you enter the delivery mode (ship-via), the language chosen in the customer record determines which ship-via codes are available. You can enter a route ID per ship via code. The picking lead time and the external transport lead time are required parameters, while distance, expected additional cost and currency can be useful to define the sourcing feature. The shipment type and shipment location are useful parameters if you want to control the shipment process from this level of detail.

The following parameters can be useful to define the sourcing feature:

Both the overview page and the matrix pages are divided into two sectons. You can view and enter general supply chain parameters in one section and define exceptions for each general supply chain parameter definition in the related section. The exceptions are defined on a supply chain part group level, which means the parameters are valid for all the inventory parts connected to the same supply chain part group.

Prerequisites

Required:

Optional:

Required when defining exceptions to the general parameters:

System Effects

As a result of this activity: