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2221849 - Customizing and process flow of ERP SD

scheduling
SAP Knowledge Base
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Language English English
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LE-SHP-GF-DS (Delivery and transport
Component Released On 28.08.2017
scheduling)

Please find the original document at https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2221849

Symptom

This Knowledge Base Article explains the relevant customizing and the process flow of SD scheduling in the
ERP system.

Environment

• Sales And Distribution (SD)

• Logistics Execution (LE)
• SAP ERP SD scheduling (LE-SHP-GF-DS)
• SAP R/3
• SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7
• SAP ERP Central Component
• SAP ERP
• SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP
• SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
• SAP S/4 HANA

Resolution

The aim of the scheduling is to determine the goods issue date, loading date, material availability date, the
transportation planning date and when necessary a new delivery date.

■ Customizing:
• Sales documents:
The delivery and transportation scheduling can be activated in transaction OVLY.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Define Scheduling By Sales Document Type
It is controlled by the document type.
• Deliveries:
For deliveries you have to consider the setting in transaction 0VLK. Field 'Rescheduling' controls
whether a new scheduling is carried out.

• Stock transport documents:

In stock transport documents you also have the possibility to use the SD scheduling functionality.
If you do not activate it then an MM scheduling is carried out.

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Customizing path: Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Purchase Order -> Set up Stock
Transport Order -> Assign Delivery Type and Checking Rule
or when using the functionality of Stock transport orders between storage location:
Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Purchase Order -> Set up Stock Transport Order -> Set
Up Stock Transfer Between Storage Locations -> Assign Delivery Type and Checking Rule
According to Storage Location
• Replenishment deliveries:
Regarding replenishment deliveries please have a look at SAP Note 215664.
• Calendar
During SD scheduling the system can take into account three different calendars:
Calendar at the shipping point: The calendar for the shipping point you can maintain under the
following customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
This calendar is used for the calculation of the transportation planning date, material availability
date, loading date and goods issue date.
Calendar at the route: This calendar is used for the calculation of the transportation. You can
maintain this under:
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
If no calendar is maintained at the route then the calendar at the shipping point is used.
In the customer master you can define Unloading Points. The unloading point determines when
your customer is able to receive the goods. You have the possibility to assign a factory calendar
and working hours to your receiving point.
The requested delivery date is checked against the factory calendar at the unloading point. If no
calendar is maintained then the requested delivery date can lie on non-working days due to your
calendar assigned to the shipping point. Please check SAP Knowledge Base Article 1579665.
The check happens in function module SD_DELIVERY_DATE_CHECK.
The calendars must be maintained at least three years into the future!
• Working times:
SD scheduling can be carried out exact to days or exact to seconds. This depends on whether
you are working with working times. In the customizing you have to define working times for your
shipping point.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Working Hours
These working times you have to assign to the shipping point under:
Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and Transportation Scheduling
-> Maintain Duration

■ Determined dates:
• Goods issue date
In case of backwards scheduling: goods issue date = delivery date – transit time
In case of forwards scheduling: goods issue date = loading date + loading time
The transit time is the time that is required to deliver the goods from your site to your customer.
The transit time is defined in the route.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
The loading time is the time that is required for loading the shipment. It can be maintained as
default for the shipping point, for the combination of shipping point and route or for the
combination shipping point, route and loading group.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
• Loading date

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In case of backwards scheduling: loading date = goods issue date – loading time
In case of forwards scheduling: loading date = transportation planning date + transportation
planning time
The loading time is the time that is required for loading the shipment. It can be maintained as
default for the shipping point, for the combination of shipping point and route or for the
combination shipping point, route and loading group.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
• Material Availability date
In case of backwards scheduling: material availability date = loading date – pick pack time
In case of forwards scheduling: material availability date = loading date – pick pack time or
current date
The pick/pack time is the time that is required for allocating goods to a delivery as well as the
time that is required for picking and packing.
The pick/pack time can be maintained as default for the shipping point. Furthermore for the
combination of shipping point and route or the combination of the shipping point route and weight
group.
Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Maintain Duration
• Transportation Planning date
In case of backwards scheduling: transportation planning date = loading date – transportation
planning time
In case of forwards scheduling: current date or transportation planning date = loading date –
transportation planning time
• Delivery date
If the requested delivery cannot be kept a forwards scheduling will calculate a new delivery date:
Delivery date = goods issue date + transit time

■ Process logic of the scheduling:

Usually the system starts with a backwards scheduling starting from the requested delivery date.

Exception: Transaction Co06 always carries out ONLY a forwards scheduling.

The requested delivery date will be checked against the factory calendar of the unloading point, and
the arrival time will be set according to the beginning of the receiving hours, in other words, to the
opening time of the unloading point. From coding point of view this happens in subroutine function
module SD_DELIVERY_DATE_CHECK. Please also consider SAP Knowledge Base Article 1579665.

All other dates and times will be determined in backwards scheduling. If one of the dates or times lies
in the past the system automatically switches to forwards scheduling. In transaction OVLY
(Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery Scheduling and
Transportation Scheduling -> Define Scheduling By Sales Document Type) you can control that the
system does not switch to a forwards scheduling when the material availability lies in the past. Please
also check the related debugging guide (SAP Knowledge Base Article 2220102) for further information.
If the system has to switch to forwards scheduling then the transportation planning date or the material
availability date will be set to the current date. Starting from this the other dates will be calculated
considering the maintained times. The newly calculated delivery date will be checked against the
factory calendar at the unloading point and also against the working times. It can happen that the
delivery date and time has to be shifted further into the future. In other words, to the next working day
and time of the unloading point. In this case a new backwards scheduling is carried out from that date
and time.

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These dates and times can still be changed by the route schedule scheduling which is called right after
SD scheduling. Regarding route schedule determination please check SAP Knowledge Base Articles
1750978, 2150219.

Please consider the document for route schedule scheduling.

The final result of the scheduling, or better to say, the determined material availability date will be
passed over to the ATP check. The ATP check is carried out for this date. If the date can be confirmed
everything is fine. If the ATP check can only confirm on a later date then the new material availability
date will be passed again to the scheduling and a forwards scheduling is carried out starting from this
date.

Time stream:
Scheduling uses time streams. The time streams are stored in table TTSTR. Please consider SAP
Note 169885 and SAP Knowledge Base Article 2140434.

■ Troubleshooting Guide:
• Delivery Date or another date falls on a non-working date
Please check the customizing and the time stream according to SAP Knowledge Base Article
1579665.
• Changes in the factory calendar are not considered while scheduling
The system works with streams during the scheduling. When you e.g. change the factory
calendar in your test system then the time stream will be deleted and will be newly generated
when needed. But when you move the changes of the factory calendar to another system (e.g.
productive system) via a Transport then the time stream will not be updated. You have to delete
the time streams manually. Please consider SAP Note 169885. Whenever you carry out such
changes it is recommended to delete the streams via the report mentioned in the SAP Note. The
reports run only a few seconds and you will not get any success information when the report has
finished. The report can be used safely at any time. The time streams will be automatically
generated when needed.
• Unexplainable dates are determined while scheduling
There are several cases where the time stream cannot be built up correctly or where you receive
not explainable dates. Usually this is caused by wrong customizing:
• Factory calendar validation is not sufficient. Please make sure that the factory calendar is
maintained at least three years into the future.
• Factory calendars (shipping point, route, unloading point) are not harmonized. The same
is valid for the working times and the factory calendar at the unloading point. It makes no
sense to maintain e.g. working times for Monday whereas it is a non-working day due to
the factory calendar.
• Shift definitions for the shipping point are not valid any more. Please make sure that the
shifts are valid (Customizing path: Sales and Distribution -> Basic Functions -> Delivery
Scheduling and Transportation Scheduling –> Maintain Working Hours).
• Inconsistencies in the time stream -> See SAP Note 169885
• Confirmed delivery date lies before requested delivery date
This can happen when you are using rout schedules and the specific transit time of the route
schedule is not the same as the transit time in the route. Please consider SAP Note 146829.
• Issues regarding route schedule scheduling
Please check SAP Knowledge Based Article 1880353 and SAP Note 146829.
• Delivery date is earlier then the Goods Issue Date
This can happen when you are working with time zones. The delivery date is displayed in the

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time zone of the ship-to-party. All other dates will be displayed in the time zone of the shipping
point. Please consider SAP Knowledge Based Article 1890212.

Keywords

Versandterminierung, Transportterminierung, Vorwärtsterminierung, Rückwärtsterminierung,

Verfügbarkeitsprüfung, Materialbereitstellungsdatum, Transportdispositionsdatum, Ladedatum,
Warenausgangsdatum, Einteilungsdatum, Verkaufsbeleg, Lieferbeleg, Einkaufsbeleg, Nachschublieferung,
Fabrikkalender, Versandstelle, Arbeitszeiten, Wunschlieferdatum, Richtzeit, Ladezeit, Transitzeit, Teitstrahl,
Vorwärtsterminierung, Rückwärtsterminierung, Verfügbarkeitsprüfung, Auftragsart, Zeitzone, 311, EWM,

Products

SAP ERP Central Component all versions

SAP ERP all versions
SAP R/3 Enterprise all versions
SAP R/3 all versions
SAP S/4HANA all versions
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Other Components

Component Description

MM-PUR-GF-STO Stock Transfer

SD-BF-AC Availability Check

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Title

2220102 Debugging guide for SD scheduling

2150219 Troubleshooting guide for route schedules (ERP)

2140434 Troubleshooting guide for ERP SD scheduling

1890212 Delivery date / goods issue date seems to be incorrect

1880353 Delivery date shifted into the future with route schedules

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1750978 Route Schedule does not populate on sales order

1579665 Scheduling - Date lies on a non-working day

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