Use this activity to enter a supplier schedule agreement part header, i.e., to further define supplier schedule management options at the part level. Agreement level defaults can be overwritten by the tolerance checking and generate options.
The supplier schedule agreement consists of two parts: the supplier schedule agreement and the supplier schedule agreement part.
On the supplier schedule agreement, enter the terms and conditions valid for the complete agreement. These agreement defaults are used only to save time by avoiding duplicate entry for each agreement part, where the controlling values are actually kept. Note: Changes here do not affect the schedule flow; only changes made on agreement parts can.
On the supplier schedule agreement part, enter the default terms and conditions valid for the specific part. If the terms and conditions are identical for all parts connected to the agreement, you should enter most of the data in the Supplier Schedule Agreement page and add the necessary data in the Agreement Order tab in the Supplier Schedule Agreement Part page. If the terms and conditions are different for each part, you should enter most of the data in the Supplier Schedule Agreement Part page.
An agreement can have any of the following status: Planned, Active, Negotiated, or Closed.
The highest cumulative quantity that ever existed on a released schedule is stored in the Supplier Schedule Agreement Part / High Cum Auth tab. Its grouped per line type. Note that this quantity is different from the cumulative quantity. The high cumulative quantity is the sum of all quantities ever ordered from the supplier, whereas the cumulative quantity is the sum of all quantities ever ordered from the supplier on a particular agreement. The information in this tab is intact even if the schedule itself has been deleted.
As result of this entry, a supplier schedule agreement part header is entered. It is then set to the Planned status. The entry is used during the management of supplier schedules by part.