System-Created Supplier Schedules
When the system automatically creates trade sales supplier planning or shipping schedules, it copies newly created or updated customer schedule information to the new supplier schedule and assigns a new release ID to the schedule.
The system creates the supplier planning or shipping schedules regardless of the Enable Shipping Schedule setting in Supplier Schedule Control (5.5.7.24). Typically, when Enable Shipping Schedule is No, you cannot generate planning or shipping schedules, just standard supplier schedules.
The system copies the following data from the customer planning or shipping schedule to the matching supplier planning or shipping schedule:
• Item number and quantity
• Fabrication and raw authorization quantities and dates
• Prior cumulative date and Prior Cum Required field setting
• Shipping detail data
You cannot edit the system-created trade sales supplier planning or shipping schedules; however, you can view them.
Trade Sales and MRP
The system automatically copies trade sales customer schedules into corresponding trade sales supplier schedules. Since suppliers ship the material directly to the customer, there is no requirement for you to:
• Create a required ship schedule (RSS).
• Run MRP to generate planned orders to meet the demand from the customer.
• Run Scheduled Update from MRP (5.5.3.1) to generate supplier schedules for planned orders.
It is possible to create an RSS and run MRP so that you can run reports for planning purposes; however, in trade sales processing, Schedule Update from MRP does not generate supplier schedules for a trade sales order. If you wish to run MRP, you must:
• Create an RSS for the trade sales customer scheduled order.
• Set up the items to be planned by MRP.
MRP matches the firm trade sales customer demand schedule details with the matching supplier schedule details. MRP also generates planned orders for the remaining planned trade sales customer demand. Since you cannot specify a percentage value for a trade sales supplier scheduled order using Scheduled Order MRP % Maint (5.5.1.17), you cannot use Schedule Update from MRP to generate supplier schedules for a trade sales supplier scheduled order. So, with each execution, MRP continues to replan the non-firm RSS schedule quantities.
You can prevent MRP from planning a trade sales item by either setting Plan Orders to No or leaving Order Policy blank in Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1).
If you order the same item from the same supplier for both trade sales and non-trade sales purposes and want to execute MRP for both, you should create two different item numbers. Set up both items with Plan Orders set to Yes and Order Policy set appropriately.
If you use the same item number for your trade sales and non-trade sales items, MRP combines the demand, offsets the demand by the firm schedule details, then generates planned orders. Schedule Update from MRP then generates supplier schedules for the remaining quantity using the non-trade-sales supplier scheduled order.
Raw and Fabrication Authorization Data
Customers and suppliers sometimes use raw and fabrication authorization data to determine the quantity the supplier is authorized to procure for a particular day/time on a schedule.
If the trade sales customer sends schedules that include raw and fabrication authorization data, the system captures and copies raw and fabrication authorization quantities and dates onto the matching supplier schedules.
Requirement Details
The system does not capture and copy requirements detail on customer schedules. Requirement details can include release authorization numbers (RANs) and other data that the customer includes in their schedules. To send the customer RANs or other details to trade sales suppliers, you must capture and forward the details separately.