| # Using planned delivery moments In purchase scheduling, planned delivery moments must be generated for a combination of item, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, and warehouse. These moments are used by Enterprise Planning for lead-time offsetting. Note Planned delivery moments can be generated in the Generate Planned Delivery Moments (tdipu0225m000) session. When Enterprise Planning calls Procurement for planned delivery moments for a combination of item, buy-from business partner/ship-from business partner, and warehouse, LN carries out the following steps: Searches the Delivery Patterns by Warehouse / BP / Item (tdipu0124m000) session to retrieve the applicable delivery pattern. LN searches in the following order: By warehouse, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner and item. By warehouse, buy-from business partner, and ship-from business partner. By warehouse. Determines whether the purchase schedule is receipt based or shipment based. If a purchase schedule already exists for a combination of item, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, purchase office and ship-to address, LN checks whether the schedule is shipment based or receipt based from the Shipment/Receipt Based field in the Purchase Schedules (tdpur3110m000) session. If a purchase schedule does not exist, a new schedule is generated. In this case, the receipt based or shipment based information is retrieved from the Purchase Contract Line Logistic Data (tdpur3102m000) session or the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. If the schedule turns out to be shipment based, Enterprise Planning reads the planned delivery moments for a combination of warehouse, ship-from business partner and delivery pattern from the Planned Delivery Moments (Shipment Based) (tdipu0125m000) session. If the schedule turns out to be receipt based, Enterprise Planning reads the planned delivery moments for a combination of warehouse and delivery pattern from the Planned Delivery Moments (Receipt Based) (tdipu0126m000) session. Related topics Overview of purchase schedule handling |