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| The data defined in the Calendars and Periods module is used in the following ERP LN packages and modules: Recurrences People uses recurrences for employees'assignments in the Assignments (bpmdm0130m000) session. Patterns Procurement uses patterns for the schedule issue dates for material release and shipping schedule. For more information, refer to Overview of purchase schedule handling. Procurement also uses patterns as delivery patterns linked to warehouses, buy-from business partners and ship-from business partners, and items. For more information, refer to To use planned delivery moments. Enterprise Planning uses patterns as fixed delivery patterns. In a vendor managed inventory (VMI) situation, you can specify the applicable pattern in the Terms and Conditions module. For more information, refer to Fixed deliveries in Enterprise Planning Calendars In the Enterprise Modeling Management module in Common, you can define the calendar of companies (company calendar) and enterprise units. In the People module, you can link calendars to teams of employees. The Hours and Expenses module in the People package uses this information to get the default number of hours from the calendar lines. In Common, you can link calendars to business partners and addresses; Procurement and Sales use this information when planning goods transfers. In Manufacturing, you can link calendars to work centers. The work centers' working times determine the available production capacity. In Warehousing, you can link calendars to warehouses. In Service, you use calendars to specify when a cluster is available for servicing and to define when a service department is available to perform service activities. Availability types Every calendar has one or more availability types. Usually, for each package you can specify which of the calendars' availability types applies to that package. In Service, you can assign a separate availability type to each service type. Here, every availability type indicates the employee’s available time for each activity. In Enterprise Planning, you can assign availability types to scenarios; with this, you can simulate a reduced or increased production capacity. Periods The Commissions and Rebates module in Sales uses periods to calculate the commissions for sales representatives and agents, and the rebates for customers. Procurement uses periods for purchase schedules. The Statistics module in Procurement and Sales uses periods for statistical analyses. The Repetitive Manufacturing module in Manufacturing uses periods to organize repetitive production processes. The Project Progress module in Project uses periods to define cost-control periods. People uses periods for budgeting and hours accounting. Note Financials does not use Calendars and Periods. Financials uses its own entities to define the financial periods. Related topics Overview of calendars and periods To define recurrences To use patterns To use calendars Availability types To use periods Calendar integration with external scheduling packages |