Generating Customer Schedules
The system automatically creates trade sales supplier schedules when you:
• Import trade sales customer schedules.
• Create a new trade sales customer schedule and make it active.
• Reactivate a nonactive trade sales customer schedule.
Importing Customer Schedules
Use Document Import (35.1) to import customer planning or shipping schedules.
See User Guide: QAD EDI eCommerce.
Note: You can also use eCommerce Manager (35.5 and 35.22.13) to import any documents that are ready to import.
When you import a customer planning schedule, the system automatically generates a new trade sales supplier planning schedule. When you import a customer shipping schedule, the system automatically creates a new trade sales supplier shipping schedule.
The system automatically sets a newly created trade sales supplier schedule as the active release.
Capturing Data that Did Not Import
In trade sales agreements, not all information that you receive in a customer schedule EDI document may be necessary for import. You can pass information from an EDI-received customer schedule directly to the trade sales supplier without importing it by using the EDI eCommerce turnaround data feature.
Use the frame that sets up capture of turnaround data in EDI eCommerce Implementation Definition Maintenance (35.15.13). Specify inbound and outbound schedule data as type T. The gateway for the inbound document places the data in the turnaround repository while the gateway for the outbound document retrieves the data from the turnaround repository.
Creating Customer Schedules
You create a customer planning schedule in Customer Plan Schedule Maint (7.5.1). You create a customer shipping schedule in Customer Ship Schedule Maint (7.5.2).
You can create a new customer planning or shipping schedule for a trade sales order and make that schedule the active trade sales release. When you do this, the system automatically creates matching supplier planning or shipping schedules.
Note: You make a schedule active by specifying Yes to Make Current Schedule Active? in the last frame of the customer schedule maintenance programs.
Modifying a Nonactive Trade Sales Customer Schedule
You modify trade sales customer schedules in Customer Plan Schedule Maint (7.5.1) or Customer Ship Schedule Maint (7.5.2).
When you change any field on the currently active customer planning or shipping schedule that already has a matching trade sales supplier schedule, the system creates a newer supplier schedule with a higher release ID.
The system sets the new supplier schedule as the active release and ends the previous release.
If the system supersedes a queued schedule before EDI Ecommerce exports it, it is not exported. EDI eCommerce exports only the currently active schedule.
See User Guide: QAD EDI eCommerce.