About this Guide
This guide describes the process to set up and use calendars, periods, recurrences, and patterns in the application.
Intended audience
This document is intended for persons working with master data in the Common, People, Project, Enterprise Planning, Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Service packages. Financials uses its own entities to define the financial periods.
The intended audience can include implementation consultants, product architects, support specialists, etc.
Document summary
This table shows the chapters of this guide:
| Chapter | Content |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Provides an introduction to the role of the Calendars and Periods module, the central module where you can store calendar and timing data for use in other modules. |
| Recurrences | Describes how to define and use recurrences. A recurrence is a repetitive pattern of dates, such as “Biweekly on Mondays and Fridays”, “The 27th of each month”, or “January 1st of each year”. |
| Patterns | Describes how to define and use patterns. A pattern is a scheme defining the day of the month, the day of the week, and the time of the day you want an activity to be carried out. |
| Calendars and Shifts |
Describes how to define and use calendars. Calendars define the working times or opening
times over a large range of dates. Calendars are used to define the working
times of employees, work centers, and warehouses and to provide information on the working
dates and times of business partners, required to plan deliveries. Define shifts for a calendar in order to specify the working time of a team of employees. |
| Calendar integrations | Provides information on how to set up an integration between the Calendars and Periods module and external packages. |
| Periods | Describes how to define and use periods. Periods divide a year into regular intervals, such as weeks, months, or quarters. |
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