Describing Scheduling Agreements without Releases

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Explain the process flow for Scheduling Agreements without Releases
  • Compare the Scheduling Agreement without Releases to a Purchase Order

Scheduling Agreements without Releases Overview

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Scheduling Agreement without Releases Collaboration Process Flow

The Scheduling Agreement without Releases Collaboration process flow is shown in the diagram below. The process starts with the creation of the Scheduling Agreement, which includes the Planning Horizon, the Firm Zone, the Trade-off Zone, the Forecast/Planning Zone. No releases are created, but schedule lines contain the information the Supplier will use to fulfill the Buyer's requests.

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Process Flow Repeats for Each Schedule Line

Scheduling Agreement without Releases

The first two steps in the process flow are to create the Scheduling Agreement and the Delivery Schedules and send the agreement to the Supplier. These steps are completed once for the Scheduling Agreement. The remaining steps are repeated for each Schedule Line of the Scheduling Agreement.

Schedule Line 1

This diagram shows the same process flow but with the steps compressed in the diagram. Each of the steps in the box is repeated for each Schedule Line.

Schedule Line 2

This diagram shows a second Schedule Line for this Scheduling Agreement. The steps are repeated for each Schedule Line of the Scheduling Agreement.

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