SAP Creation Profile using SAP MM Outline Purchase Agreements With Vendors

Use

The creation profile determines

• Which event triggers the creation of a scheduling agreement release (changes involving the lines of the overall schedule and/or the reaching of the next transmission date),
• How the delivery dates are shown (aggregation and release horizon),
• Whether
Backlogs and Immediate Requirements are determined and shown in the scheduling agreement (SA) release
• Whether a tolerance check is carried out for SA releases that are created due to changes to the overall delivery schedule in the system.

The tolerance check is only carried out if lines of the overall schedule for an item have been changed and if you create SA releases via Scheduling agreement ® Create SA release.

Features

A creation profile is defined on a plant-dependent basis and consists of the following areas:

Area	Here you define the following, depending on the scheduling agreement release type (FRC or JIT delivery schedule):
General parameters	Whether - and, if so, under what conditions - an SA release is generated (creation strategy). Whether backlogs and immediate requirements are to be determined for the SA release type. Whether or not the tolerance check is to be deactivated in the case of change documents created for SA releases with backlogs.
Aggregation horizons	The Release Horizon for which released quantities are shown, and The periods for which quantities may be aggregated. If your creation profile provides for aggregation, quantities and delivery dates set out in the lines of the overall delivery schedule stored in the system for a scheduling agreement are aggregated to form release schedule lines. If you use a creation profile without aggregation, or work without a creation profile, the schedule lines of the SA release correspond to the schedule lines of the overall delivery schedule for the scheduling agreement for the relevant period.
Creation periodicity	Whether SA releases are to be created on a periodic basis (and, if so, at which frequency). Each time a scheduling agreement release is created, the system calculates the next creation date. Weekly and monthly releases are always created on a Monday (first workday of the period). The system takes the factory calendar as the basis for calculating the due dates for release creation. If you wish to create SA releases on a periodic basis, you should choose a creation strategy that includes Next date.
Tolerance profile	Whether tolerances are are to be checked for scheduling agreement releases created as a result of changes to the overall delivery schedule. This allows you to specify that SA releases are only to be created following major changes to the overall delivery schedule.

Activities

You process creation profiles in Customizing for Purchasing under Scheduling Agreement ® Maintain Release Creation Profile for Scheduling Agreement with Release Documentation.

You assign a creation profile to a scheduling agreement item in the Additional data.