Perform Customer Tolerance Check, Manually
Explanation
Business contracts often include allowable schedule variances with perhaps financial penalties for the customer
if violated. It can therefore be crucial for the supplier to present actual facts and figures associated with the
schedule variances' violations.
The two main tolerance calculations are cumulative schedule tolerance and bucketed schedule tolerance
call-off.
- Cumulative Schedule Tolerance: This check shows the cumulative effect of the releases. The quantity per day
is compared to the same period of time for a previous schedule. The variations are also measured per day on the
basis of cumulative requirements.
- Bucketed Schedule Tolerance: This check summarizes schedule quantities into the buckets defined by the
schedule template. Accumulations in like-size buckets are compared to a tolerance percentage defined for each
bucket in the template.
Users can choose to execute the tolerance check either manually or automatically. 'Automatic' tolerance
check means that tolerance checks are run automatically upon approval of the customer schedule. The manual
tolerance check can either be executed on the Tolerance Check Customer Schedule page, the Customer
Schedule page, or the Customer Schedules page.
Note: A tolerance check can be performed even if the approver is blocked for use.
Prerequisites
- The conditions for the tolerance check method have to be entered in the customer schedule agreement.
System Effects
- If all schedule lines where within the stated tolerance the entire customer schedule will receive the
Within Tolerance status.
- If one or several schedule lines received the result Out of Tolerance, the status for the complete schedule
will receive the Out of Tolerance status and cannot automatically continue in the schedule flow.