The SAP S/4HANA system delivers various schedule line categories to provide different control options for the items throughout the sales process. You can use them as model examples or as templates for creating your own schedule line categories.
Listen to Jim how schedule lines are controlled in sales documents.
The figure shows examples of schedule line categories.
The schedule line category is defined with a two-character key. The standard system already includes keys that often indicate the usage of the schedule line category.
The first character indicates the sales process in which the schedule line category is used.
| A = Inquiry | B = Quotation |
| C = Order | D = Returns |
The second character in the key indicates what happens to the schedule line within logistics.
| D = No inventory management | X = No inventory management with goods issue |
| N = No MRP | P = Material requirements planning |
| V = Consumption-based planning |
Note
You can decide if you would like to keep the standard keys or define your own so that the abbreviation refers to your sales document types and how the category is configured.As the next figure illustrates, schedule lines contain delivery dates and quantities as well as information about the requirements transfer and inventory management. They are a prerequisite for delivering materials.
In Customizing for item categories, you decide if you are going to allow schedule lines for the item. You can assign schedule line categories to each item category. By defining a schedule line category, you determine which schedule lines are actually relevant for delivery. You need to activate the relevant to delivery indicator if you want the goods to be physically delivered.
In the schedule line category, you set the movement type to control which changes to quantities and values are posted to inventory accounting. Inventory management is responsible for maintaining the movement types. Movement types have been configured for all processes in the SAP standard system. Many of the movement types relevant to sales are between 601 and 699.
You can deactivate requirements transfer and availability checks at schedule line level.
A purchase requisition is a prerequisite for a purchase order and this can be automatically generated from the sales document. To do this, you need to configure the purchase order type as well as item and account assignment categories in the purchase order.
If you activate a delivery block in the schedule line category, the block is automatically set at schedule line level in the sales document.