Sales releases

Sales releases are used to group, by release type, a customer's sales schedule requirements. Sales releases are usually received by electronic data interchange (EDI), but can also be manually specified, or received by a Business Object Document (BOD). Sales releases or separate release lines can be processed and converted to sales schedules. A sales release represents the external customer view for schedule requirements, while the sales schedule represents the internal supplier view.

Sales release revision numbers identify the updates that were sent to the business partner.

The first sales release that is created for a specific combination of the following characteristics receives the sales release 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.

Note: If the Automatically Process Sales Schedule Releases check box is cleared in the Ship-to Business Partner by Site (tccom2111m000), Ship-to Business Partner (tccom4111s000), or Sold-to Business Partner (tccom4110s000) session, you can update sales releases before they are converted to sales schedules in the Process Sales Releases (tdsls3208m000) session. If the Automatically Process Sales Schedule Releases check box is selected, sales releases are automatically converted to sales schedules, which means you cannot update them.

Sales release types and sales schedule types

Sales releases and sales schedules are always of a specific type. Sales releases can only contain sales schedules of the same type.

The following types are available:

Material Release
Over the long term and mid term (in general periods of some months), planning information is supplied from the business partner. In general, a material release can be considered as a planning release. For non-referenced schedules, however, the material release can also contain the actual order. In this case the release is called a material release with shipping capabilities.
Shipping Schedule
On a shorter time basis, shipping releases that contain more detailed and fixed information are sent. This information is gathered on the basis of job shop requirements, miscellaneous orders, and so on. Shipping schedules contain ordering information and inform you about actual deliveries. This sales schedule type can be used for non-referenced sales schedules as well as referenced sales schedules.
Sequence Shipping Schedule
Over the short term (in general a period of twenty days of which five days are fixed), sequence shipping information is communicated. Sequence shipping schedules are a supplement to the material release or the shipping schedule with precise information about the production or deliveries of the requirements. These schedules can include the production or delivery sequence, and the order, the place, and the time of unloading after shipment. This sales schedule type is only used if the sales schedule is referenced.
Pick-up Sheet
Over the short term, pick-up information is supplied from the business partner. A pick-up sheet is a document that constitutes a list of items to be picked-up at the supplier’s location by a specific carrier for transport to the customer on a specific day. In general, these are daily requirements. Sales releases of the Pick-up Sheet type are converted to referenced sales schedules of the Shipping Schedule type.

Note:

The type of sales schedule that you can receive for a specific item and business partner combination is determined by one of the following:

The field settings in the Schedule Message Types group box of the Sales Contract Line Logistic Data (tdsls3102m000) session.
The EDI Message field in the Items - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0510m000) session.

You can view sales release data in the following sessions:


Sales release type	Sales releases	Release lines	Release line details
Material Release	Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000)	Sales Release Lines (tdsls3508m000)	Sales Release Line Details (tdsls3515m000)
Shipping Schedule	Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000)	Sales Release Lines (tdsls3508m000)	Sales Release Line Details (tdsls3515m000)
Sequence Shipping Schedule	Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000)	Sales Release Lines - Sequence Shipping Schedule (tdsls3116m000)	-
Pick-up Sheet	Sales Releases Overview (tdsls3512m000)	Sales Release Lines - Pick-up Sheet (tdsls3109m000)	Sales Release Line Details - Pick-up Sheet (tdsls3116m100)

Note: You can also use the Sales Releases (tdsls3612m100) and Sales Release (tdsls3612m000) sessions to view, enter, and maintain sales release data.

Sales release lines

Whether a sales release line refers to a sales schedule or to a sales schedule line, depends on the release type. If the release type is:

Material Release or Shipping Schedule, a sales release line refers to a sales schedule.
Sequence Shipping Schedule, a sales release line refers to a sales schedule header, sales schedule line, and sequence shipping information.
Pick-up Sheet, a sales release line refers to a combination of carrier and shipment reference.

Sales release line details

If the release type is:

Material Release or Shipping Schedule, a sales release line detail refers to a sales schedule line.
Pick-up Sheet, a sales release line detail refers to a sales schedule header, sales schedule line, and pick-up sheet line.