Customer Calendars
QAD Enterprise Applications allows you to define calendars matching your customer’s work schedule (for the ship-to location). The system uses this calendar when calculating shipments for the customer. This calendar:
• Identifies the customer’s holidays, shutdowns, hours, and so forth
• Allows you to calculate a ship date acceptable to you and your customer
Customer Calendar Maintenance (7.3.1)
Use Customer Calendar Maintenance (7.3.1) to set up a customer calendar.
• Useful when a customer has a work schedule different from your company’s work schedule
• Specify your customer’s work days and their hours of operation
• Can specify exceptions to the customer’s calendar
System checks the calendar when calculating the required ship schedule for the customer so releases do not occur on the customer’s non-working days.
• If you do not set up a customer calendar, system uses your shop calendar set up in Calendar Maintenance (36.2.5)
Two additional frames let you specify exceptions to your customer’s regular work week:
• Operating Day Hour Exceptions
• Specify exceptions to the regular work week such as shutdown periods
• Specify a start and end date
• Reference only, not used in schedule calculations
• Non-Operating Days
• Specify a date
Exercise: Customer Calendar
Create a calendar for the ship-to location.
Use Customer Calendar Maintenance (7.3.1).
1 Create a calendar for the ship-to plant by entering:
Field | Data |
Customer Ship-To: | f001 |
2 Accept the default values.
QCS Control Program Setup
Control programs contain parameters that tell the system how processing takes place and what defaults to use. Two control programs are available to use when setting QCS control parameters.
• Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24)
• Required
• Enables QCS
• System-wide, affecting all sequence schedules
• Customer Controls Maintenance (7.5.4.1)
• Optional
• Use to set custom control parameters for an individual customer
• Overrides the settings in Sequence Schedule Control for the individual customer
Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24)
Use Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24) to enable QCS functionality and to set the system-wide defaults.
