Delivery schedule types – Sales

In this procedure, different delivery schedule types are registered, including for Delivery schedule Silf (the Swedish association for purchase and logistics) explain the term "delivery plan" in the following way: A delivery schedule is a plan/schedule for deliveries from supplier to customer. The delivery schedule is created by customer and generally contains a planning horizon of 0,5–1 year. Normally the delivery schedule quantities are assigned different statuses depending on the type of demand. It is common that for example the entered quantities in the immediate future (closest in time) actually are fixed orders. In an interval of a few months ahead of the fixed orders, the entered quantities might be considered as preliminary orders for which the customer is obliged to take financial responsibility for any material purchased by the supplier. The subsequent quantities entered are considered to be forecast only. (Translated from source https://www.silf.se/tjanster/ordlista-for-inkop-och-logistik/l/ [2018-08-29]). A delivery schedule is a way to increase the transparency and thereby make it possible to mutually take charge of the financial situation across multiple steps in the supply chain. This is done by transferring information regarding the immediate demands/requirements as well as future forecast demands. (complete) for Monitor-to-Monitor.

The delivery schedule types determine that handling of delivery schedules for different customers can be done in different ways. It can for example be that you for different customers need to check the schedules in different ways with different reconciliation methods, transfer a limited amount of the forecast horizon for certain customers. You might also want delivery schedules for certain customers to be automatically reconciled and transferred to customer order, while you for other customers want to do the same thing manually.

A delivery schedule is always registered for a certain delivery schedule type, and it is the delivery schedule type which has the settings determining how reconciliations etc. are made.