Supplier Calendar

A supplier calendar indicates which days of the week or dates are approved shipping days for each supplier.

The supplier calendar is used for both automatically created and manually entered purchase orders. For the former group, the shipment date is calculated based on the need date.

The following conditions must be met in order to use the calendar to control the purchase order and planned purchase order dates:

• It is specified that a check should be made against a supplier calendar for each combination of item/warehouse.
• It is specified that a check should be made against a supplier calendar for the supplier.
• Current shipment days are entered for the supplier.