Course: SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement (MM-Materials Management) | Udemy Business

 Outline agreement = contract (quantity or value) - scheduling agreement (delivery

schedule)
 Outline agreement: long term agreement with predefined quantity or value
 Delivery dates aren’t specific in outline agreements as it will be provided separately in
release orders or delivery schedule lines
 Contracts can be for a specific plant or multiple plants with the same purchasing rg,
called centrally agreed contract
 Create contract: ME31K
MM – purchasing – outline agreement – contract

IC: M (material unknown) – quantity & value contract

IC: W (material group) – value contract

Then release order or purchase order with ref to contract

 We can create contract with item categories:

Standard – consignment (K) – subcontracting (L) – material unknown (M)– service (D)

Scheduling agreement

Outline agreement according to the agreed dates and quantities

Two types of scheduling agreements release documents:

1. JIT just in time delivery schedules (daily or hourly for the next few days) Feinabruf
2. FRC forecast delivery schedules (medium time overview – forecast demand)

Scheduling agreement delivery schedule Manuell or automatic through MRP

Create scheduling agreement: ME31L

Agreement type: LP

LPA with release documentation (JIT & FRC)

Maintain delivery schedule: ME38

 We can create scheduling agreement with item categories:

Standard – consignment (K) – subcontracting (L) – material unknown (M)– service (D)

Release creation profile: tool to determine the period in which releases or delivery schedules are
generated and transmitted to the vendor, aggregation of quantity and implementation of
tolerance check
Release creation profile:

- Controls the creation periodicity of the releases

- Determine type of aggregation
- Controls aggregation of scheduled quantity starting the day of the release creation
- Implementation of a tolerance check

JIT from when to when

FRC from when to when

Assign release creation profile to vendor master

Create scheduling agreement with release documentation

Maintain scheduling agreement delivery schedule – ME38

Lieferpläne ohne Abrufdokumentation anlegen

Create scheduling agreement without release documentation

TS450 – 2 Kapital 2