To use patterns

To organize regular shipments of a purchased item from a fixed supplier, you can use purchase schedules.

Order Management uses patterns for the schedule issue dates for material release and shipping schedule. For more information, refer to Overview of purchase schedule handling.

To specify that all deliveries to your company must be made at specific times on specific dates, such as every Monday at 11:00 am, you can create fixed delivery patterns. Fixed delivery patterns are based on the patterns you define in the Calendars and Periods module.

In Order Management, you can link patterns to warehouses, buy-from business partners and ship-from business partners, and items. For more information, refer to Using planned delivery moments.

Enterprise Planning uses these patterns in the planning of planned orders.

In a vendor managed inventory (VMI) situation, you can specify the applicable pattern in the Terms and Conditions module.

For more information, refer to Fixed deliveries in Enterprise Planning