Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000)

Use this session to view, enter, and maintain sales releases, which are used to generate sales schedules.

A sales release mainly contains business partner data.

If you double-click a line, the Sales Release (tdsls3612m000) session is started.

Note

If the Status is Processed, you can no longer update the sales release.

 

Release

Identifies, by one release number, those sales schedules that share the following common characteristics:

  • Sold-to business partner
  • Ship-to business partner
  • Ship-to address
  • Release type (material release/ shipping schedule/ sequence shipping schedule/ pick-up sheet)
  • Shipment based schedule/ receipt based schedule
  • Schedule quantity qualifier
  • Forecast horizon start and end
  • Sales release origin
  • Customer release
  • (Customer order)
  • Customer contract reference
Release Revision

A number that uniquely identifies the revision of the release. The release revision number indicates the updates that are sent to the business partner.

The first sales release that is created for a specific combination of the following characteristics, receives the revision number one:

  • Sold-to Business Partner
  • Ship-to Business Partner
  • Ship-to Address
  • Release Type
  • Shipment or Receipt Based
  • Schedule Quantity Qualifier
  • Sales Release Origin
  • Customer Release

When a new sales release revision is created for these characteristics, a sales release revision is created with revision number two, and so on.

Release Type

A classification used to specify the type of the release based on which schedule requirements are grouped and EDI messages can be generated. These messages are indicated by the used schedule.

Allowed values

Release Type

Sales Release Origin

The origin that created the sales release.

Allowed values

  • EDI
  • Manual
  • BOD
Status

The status of the sales release.

Allowed values

Sales Release Status

Sold-to Business Partner

Usually a customer's purchase department, the business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, that owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project.

The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include the following:

  • Default price and discount agreements
  • Sales order defaults
  • Delivery terms
  • The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner
Ship-to Business Partner

The ship-to business partner to whom you will ship the goods.

Ship-to Address

The ship-to business partner's address.

Customer Release

The business partner's release number. This number can be used for reference purposes.

Customer Revision

The business partner's release revision number. This number can be used for reference purposes.

Generation Date

The generation date of the business partner's EDI message.

Creation Date

The date and time on which the sales release is inserted in this session.

Shipment or Receipt Based

This field indicates whether the schedule requirements for the sales release are Shipment Based or Receipt Based.

Release Text

If this check box is selected, a text is present.

Schedule Quantity Qualifier

The quantity type that is transmitted in the sales release.

Allowed values

Type Qualifier

Forecast Horizon Start

The start date of the forecast horizon that was transmitted in the EDI message.

Forecast Horizon End

The end date of the forecast horizon that was transmitted in the EDI message.

 

Details

Starts the Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000) session in the details mode.

Lines

Starts a session in which you can view the sales release lines of the selected sales release.

Release Type

All Lines

Starts a session in which you can view the sales release lines that are linked to the Customer Release of the selected sales release.

Release Type

Process Sales Releases
Archive and Delete Sales Releases
Last Revisions

If this command is marked, all sales release revisions are displayed.

If this command is not marked, only the last sales release revisions are displayed.