Relationships between CCP and other modules

The data defined in the Calendars and Periods module is used in the following LN packages and modules:

• Recurrences

  People uses recurrences for employees'assignments in the Assignments (bpmdm0130m000) session.

• Patterns

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

  Procurement also uses patterns as delivery patterns linked to warehouses, buy-from business partners, ship-from business partners, and items. For more information, refer to Using planned delivery moments.

  Enterprise Planning uses patterns as fixed delivery patterns. 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

• Calendars and calendar working hours

  A calendar is identified by a combination of a calendar code and availability type.

  In Common, you can link calendars to the company, enterprise units, business partners and addresses; Procurement and Sales use this information when planning goods transfers.

  In the People module, you can link calendars to teams of employees. The Hours and Expenses module in the People package uses this information to get the default number of hours from the calendar lines.

  In Manufacturing, you can link calendars to work centers and production departments. The calendar working hours of the calendar that is linked to the work center determine the available production capacity.

  In Warehousing, you can link calendars to warehouses.

  In Service, you use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing and to define when a service department is available to perform service activities.

• Shifts

  In Manufacturing you can use shifts for repetitive manufacturing.

• Periods

  The Commissions and Rebates module in Sales uses periods to calculate the commissions for sales representatives and agents, and the rebates for customers.

  The Statistics module in Procurement and Sales uses periods for statistical analyses.

  The Repetitive Manufacturing module in Manufacturing uses periods to organize repetitive production processes.

  The Project Progress module in Project uses periods to define cost-control periods.

  People uses periods for budgeting and hours accounting.