Purchase Contract Line Logistic Data (tdpur3102m000)

Use this session to view, enter, and maintain logistic agreements for a purchase contract line.

The purchase contract line logistic data provides default values to the purchase schedule that is linked to the purchase contract line.

You can only maintain purchase contract line logistic data if the Purchase Schedule in use check box is selected in the Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000) session.

To activate the purchase contract line logistic data, choose Activate. The Active check box is selected. To de-activate the purchase contract line logistic data, choose De-activate. The Active check box is cleared.

Note

The fields in this session are defaulted from the corresponding fields in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session.

If the contract is a corporate purchase contract, many fields are disabled in this session. Logistic agreements are specified by purchase contract line detail in the Purchase Contract Line Logistic Detail Line (tdpur3102m100) session.

 

Contract

Purchase contracts are used to register specific agreements with a buy-from business partner that concern the delivery of specific goods.

A contract is comprised of:

  • A purchase contract header with general business partner data, and optionally, a linked terms and conditions agreement.
  • One or more purchase contract lines with (central) price agreements, logistic agreements, and quantity information that apply to an item or price group.
  • Purchase contract line details with logistic agreements and quantity information that apply to an item or price group for a specific location (warehouse) of a multicompany corporation. Contract line details can exist only for corporate purchase contracts.
Line

The number of the purchase contract line.

Purchase Office

A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services required by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office.

Active

If this check box is selected, the logistic agreement is active.

If this check box is cleared, the logistic agreement is inactive. You can update the agreement.

You can activate a contract line in the Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000) session only if at least one logistic agreement is active for the contract line.

Item

The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold.

An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants.

You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:

  • Cost items (for example, electricity)
  • Service items
  • Subcontracting services
  • List items (menus/options)
Preferred

Use this field to indicate whether the business partner is preferred or fixed for the item.

Allowed values

Preference

Priority

An option that enables you to add a certain rating for suppliers. If the priority is defined, the item/supplier combinations are sorted according to descending priority.

Allowed values

The allowed values range from 0, which is the highest priority, to 999, which is the lowest priority.

Sourcing Percentage

A percentage used to calculate how orders are divided among suppliers.

Note

This parameter has no effect on the planning algorithms in Warehousing.

Freezing Time Increase

The number of days, calculated from the current date, for which you can no longer increase the quantity of required items.

If the purchase schedule is Shipment Based, which you can define in the Shipment or Receipt Based field of the current session, frozen time limits are based on planned shipment dates. If the schedule is Receipt Based, frozen time limits are based on planned receipt dates.

Frozen Period (-)

The number of days, calculated from the current date, for which you can no longer reduce the quantity of required items.

If the purchase schedule is Shipment Based, which you can define in the Shipment or Receipt Based field of the current session, frozen time limits are based on planned shipment dates. If the schedule is Receipt Based, frozen time limits are based on planned receipt dates.

Use Working Days for Frozen Period

If this check box is selected, only working days are used when calculating frozen periods.

If this check box is cleared, calendar days are used when calculating frozen periods.

Note

If this check box is selected, the specified number of working days is added to the current date. The working days are retrieved from the calendar that is linked to the ship-from business partner, the buy-from business partner, or the company.

If this check box is cleared, the specified number of calendar days is added to the current date.

When planning the dates, the availability type from the Procurement Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session is used.

Delete Past Schedule Lines

This check box determines how to handle undelivered and redundant quantities on schedule lines with dates in the past.

If this check box is selected, the schedule lines are deleted by Enterprise Planning.

If this check box is cleared, planning messages are generated informing a planner to manually delete the schedule lines.

Note

This check box can be selected only if the Frozen Period for Decreasing Quantity is zero in the current session.

Capacity Time Unit

The time unit in which the ship-from business partner capacity is expressed.

Minimum Capacity Tolerance

The minimum percentage that can stay below ship-from business partner capacity.

Maximum Capacity Tolerance

The maximum percentage that can exceed ship-from business partner capacity.

The maximum capacity tolerance is calculated as follows:

Maximum Capacity Tolerance * Supplier Capacity + Supplier Capacity

Example

  • Supplier capacity: 100 pieces.
  • Maximum capacity tolerance: 20 (percent).
  • Capacity time unit: week.

Enterprise Planning takes into account that the supplier can only deliver a maximum number of 120 pieces a week.

Carrier/LSP

An organization that provides transport services. You can link a default carrier to both ship-to and ship-from business partners. In addition, you can print sales and purchase orders on a packing list, sorted by carrier.

For ordering and invoicing, you must define a carrier as a business partner.

Internal Processing Time

The time required between the recognition of needs and the release of the purchase order. Internal processing time includes document preparation and sourcing.

Note

If purchase schedules are automatically generated by Enterprise Planning, this field is used in the supplier selection process. Enterprise Planning uses this field, together with the Safety Time and Supply Time fields, to assign a priority to suppliers who can deliver the required item.

Internal Proc. Time

The unit in which the internal processing time is expressed.

Safety Time

The time that you can add to the normal lead time to protect delivery of goods against fluctuations in the lead time so that an order can be completed before the order's real need date.

Note

If purchase schedules are automatically generated by Enterprise Planning, this field is used in the supplier selection process. Enterprise Planning uses this field, together with the Internal Processing Time and Supply Time fields, to assign a priority to suppliers who can deliver the required item.

Safety Time

The unit in which the safety time is expressed.

Supply Time

The total time required to obtain an item that is forecasted. This time is used to calculate an item's order lead time, based on which a company takes commitment decisions and executes capacity planning and order management.

Example

For item A, the supplier communicated a supply time of 50 days. This is in fact a reduced lead time and is only possible because a three year forecast is sent to the supplier for this item. If additional quantities are needed, which are not included in the forecast, the supplier needs the full supply time, which is 300 days.

Note

If purchase schedules are automatically generated by Enterprise Planning, this field is used in the supplier selection process. Enterprise Planning uses this field, together with the Internal Processing Time and Safety Time fields, to assign a priority to suppliers who can deliver the required item.

Supply Time

The unit in which the supply time is expressed.

Full Supply Time

The total time required to obtain an item that is not forecasted. This time is used to calculate the full cumulative order lead time for an item, which includes the cumulative lead time of purchased parts.

Example

For item A, the supplier communicated a supply time of 50 days. This is in fact a reduced lead time and is only possible because a three year forecast is sent to the supplier for this item. If additional quantities are needed, which are not included in the forecast, the supplier needs the full supply time, which is 300 days.

Note

This field is visible only if the Use Full Supply Time check box is selected in the Procurement Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session.

Full Supply Time

The unit in which the full supply time is expressed.

Note

This field is visible only if the Use Full Supply Time check box is selected in the Procurement Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session.

Lead Time Horizon

The number of days that, together with the current date/generation date, determines whether:

  • LN uses the calculated lead time to determine the planned receipt date. LN uses this calculation when the date for which the lead time is calculated, falls outside the lead time horizon. Planned dates are calculated using the value from the Calculated Lead Time (Days) field, which is derived from the company's calendar.
  • LN determines the planned receipt date, taking into account the calendars that are related to the lead time components. LN uses this calculation when the date for which the lead time is calculated, lies between the current date and the lead time horizon. Planned dates are calculated using the individual lead time components with the components' respective calendars.
Transportation Time (Days)

The transportation time in days, which can be calculated in two ways.

LN retrieves the transportation time as follows:

  • If Freight is implemented, which you can define in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0500m000) session, calculation of the transportation time is based on carrier, and routes. Route plans and service levels are not known at this point in time.

    LN performs the following steps to retrieve the transportation time.

    1. If the route, the carrier, the origin, and the destination addresses are known, LN first searches for route plans and then for standard routes with matching routes, carriers, and addresses.
    2. If more than one matching route plan or standard route is found, LN selects the route plan or standard route with a transport means group that matches the transport means group of the carrier.
    3. If LN still finds more than one route plan or standard route, route plans have priority over standard routes. If only standard routes are found, the standard route is selected following the settings of the Carrier/LSP Selection Criterion parameter in the Freight Planning Parameters (fmlbd0100m000) session.
    4. If LN still finds more than one route plan, it selects the first one it encounters in the database.
  • If Freight is not implemented, LN takes the transportation time between the ship-from business partner's address and the receiving warehouse's address, based on a relevant distance table (if available) in the Distance Table by City (tccom4137s000) session or in the Distance Table by ZIP Code/Postal Code (tccom4138s000) session. From which of these two sessions the transportation time is retrieved, depends on the value of the Usage Distance Tables field in the COM Parameters (tccom0000s000) session.
Calculated Lead Time (Days)

The rough purchase item lead time expressed in days. The calculated lead time is only used to determine the planned receipt date of forecast demand for which no accurate determination of the planned receipt date is yet required.

The calculated lead time is based on the availability type and calendar template that are linked to the following fields:

  • Supply Time
  • Internal Processing Time
  • Safety Time
  • Transportation Time (Days)
Note

Each time you open or close the current session, LN (re)calculates the calculated lead time.

Calculated Full Lead Time (Days)

The rough purchase full item lead time expressed in days.

The calculated full lead time is based on the availability type and calendar template that are linked to the following fields:

  • Full Supply Time
  • Internal Processing Time
  • Safety Time
  • Transportation Time (Days)
Note
  • This field is visible only if the Use Full Supply Time check box is selected in the Procurement Parameters (tdpur0100m000) session.
  • Each time you open or close the current session, LN (re)calculates the calculated full lead time.
Inbound Lead Time

The time interval between the arrival of the items and the actual storage in the warehouse.

In this session, this field is displayed for information purposes only.

Inbound Lead Time

The unit in which the inbound lead time is expressed.

Date Tolerance (+)

The number of days late that a supplier can make a delivery.

This tolerance is used only for pull call-off schedules.

Date Tolerance (-)

The number of days early that a supplier can make a delivery.

This tolerance is used only for pull call-off schedules.

Quantity Tolerance (+)

The maximum quantity that a supplier can deliver. The maximum quantity tolerance is expressed as a percentage of the ordered quantity.

LN uses the Quantity Tolerance (+) to determine the default value of the Maximum Quantity Tolerance field in the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session as follows:

Max. Quantity Tolerance = 100 + Quantity Tolerance (+)

EXAMPLE

Quantity Tolerance (-)= 10%
Minimum Quantity Tolerance= 100% + 10% = 110%
Ordered quantity200

 

In this case you do not accept receipts with a quantity over 220.

Note

For push schedules, the tolerated over-receipt quantity is calculated as follows:

  • If blanket warehouse orders are used, the ordered quantity of the entire schedule is used for the calculation.
  • If receipts are made in Purchase Control, the ordered quantity of the schedule line yet to be received, is used for the calculation.

The receipt quantity that exceeds the ordered quantity is added to the last schedule line.

Quantity Tolerance (-)

minimum quantity tolerance (-).

LN uses the Quantity Tolerance (-) to determine the default value of the Minimum Quantity Tolerance field in the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session as follows:

Minimum Quantity Tolerance = 100 - Quantity Tolerance (-)

EXAMPLE

Quantity Tolerance (-)= 10%
Minimum Quantity Tolerance= 100% - 10% = 90%
Ordered quantity200

 

In this case you do not accept receipts with a quantity less than 180.

Note

This tolerance is used only for pull call-off schedules.

Use Material Release

If this check box is selected, you can send material releases with forecasting data.

Use Material Release for Firm Requirements

If this check box is selected, you can send material releases that contain the actual order.

Note

You can only select this check box if the Use Material Release check box is also selected.

Use Shipping Schedule

If this check box is selected, you can send shipping schedules.

Note

You cannot select this check box if the Use Material Release for Firm Requirements check box is selected.

Use Sequence Shipping Schedule

If this check box is selected, you can send sequence shipping schedules.

Note

You cannot select this check box if the Use Material Release for Firm Requirements check box is selected.

Transaction Time Fence

This field indicates for which purchase schedule lines inventory transactions must be logged in Warehouse Orders of Warehousing, and financial transactions must be logged in General Ledger and Accounts Payable of Financials.

Irrespective of the chosen parameter:

  • Inventory transactions and financial transactions are always logged for pull call-off schedules.
  • No transactions are logged for pull forecast schedules. As a result, this parameter is only applicable for push schedules and not for pull schedules.
Note

Even if a purchase schedule line is outside the FAB period, transactions are still logged for the schedule line when its requirement type becomes Firm.

Performance aspects

The setting of this field could affect system performance and database growth. For more information, refer to Transaction time fence.

Communication Channel

The way in which purchase releases must be communicated to the business partner.

Related topics

Release EDI Message Directly

If the Communication Channel field is set to EDI and this check box is selected, EDI messages are prepared when a purchase release receives the status Scheduled in the Purchase Releases (tdpur3120m000) session.

If this check box is cleared, you can prepare EDI messages by selecting the Prepare EDI messages check box in the Print Purchase Releases (tdpur3422m000) session.

Note
  • Electronic Commerce can only send the generated EDI messages to the supplier if the status of the purchase release is Scheduled in the Purchase Releases (tdpur3120m000) session. If the status is Created, the messages are not sent until the status becomes Scheduled.
  • When Electronic Commerce sends the EDI messages to the supplier, a purchase release receives the status Sent.

Related topics

Field for Last Shipment

The shipment related field in LN that is used in the Purchase Release (OUT) Business Object Document (BOD).

Segment Set for Material Release

The segment set used for material releases.

Note

A segment set for material release is only used in push schedules and pull forecast schedules. For pull call-off schedules, no segment sets are used.

Segment Set for Shipping Schedule

The segment set used for shipping schedules.

Note
  • A segment set for shipping schedule is only used in push schedules. For pull schedules, this segment set is not used.
  • If the Use Material Release for Firm Requirements check box is selected, you cannot enter a segment set in this field.

Related topics

Issue Pattern for Material Release

The pattern used to determine the issue date for material releases.

Note

An issue pattern for material release is only used in push schedules and pull forecast schedules. In case of pull call-off schedules, no issue patterns are used.

Issue Pattern for Shipping Schedule

The pattern used to determine the issue date for shipping schedules.

Note
  • An issue pattern for shipping schedule is only used in push schedules. In case of pull schedules, this issue pattern is not used.
  • If the Use Material Release for Firm Requirements check box is selected, you cannot enter an issue pattern in this field.
Authorizations

If this check box is selected, authorizations are used and calculated.

Authorizations for the schedule are updated in the FAB/RAW Authorizations (tdpur3534m000) session when:

  • A purchase release receives the Sent status
  • The cumulatives are reset in the Reset Cumulatives (tdpur3230m000) session
FAB Period

The time period during which the supplier is authorized to manufacture the goods required on a schedule, calculated from the schedule issue date on for push schedules, and from the current date on for pull forecast schedules.

The fab period is expressed in a number of days.

Example
  • CUM start quantity: 10000
  • Schedule issue date/current date: 05.07.99
  • Fab period: 20 days
Issue/current dateQuantity
05.07.99100
12.07.99100
19.07.99100
26.07.99100

 

Fab time fence   : 05.07.99 (+ 20 days) = 25.07.99.
Fab authorization: 10000 + 100 + 100 + 100 = 10300.
RAW Period

The time period during which the supplier is authorized to procure the raw materials required on a schedule, calculated from the schedule issue date on for push schedules, and from the current date on for pull forecast schedules.

The raw period is expressed in a number of days.

Example
  • CUM start quantity: 10000
  • Schedule issue date/current date: 05.07.99
  • Raw period: 20 days
Issue/current dateQuantity
05.07.99100
12.07.99100
19.07.99100
26.07.99100

 

Raw time fence   : 05.07.99 (+ 20 days) = 25.07.99.
Raw authorization: 10000 + 100 + 100 + 100 = 10300.
Authorizations to be

This field indicates whether the high fab authorizations and high raw authorizations must be carried forward or reset when the cumulatives (CUMs) are reset in the Reset Cumulatives (tdpur3230m000) session.

Package Definition

The package definition for the item.

Related topics

Shipment or Receipt Based

Specify on what date and time (schedule) requirements are based.

Note

The value of this field is defaulted to the Shipment/Receipt Based field of the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session.

 

Activate

Activates the logistic agreement. As a result, the Active check box is selected.

De-activate

De-activates the logistic agreement. As a result, the Active check box is cleared.

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