What is Schedule Line Categories and Schedule Agreements in SAP?

SAP Schedule Line Categories, Every time SAP System can copy the those listed items of sales document which will have schedule line. The normal scenario Schedule lines contain all the delivery related information which include delivery dates, quantities and information about the requirements transfer and inventory management.

Schedule line categories and schedule agreements

If you take a sales order document, it is divided into three parts:

Header Level information 
This consist of the overall information of the sales document, for example Net value of the sales order and the like.

Item level information 
This consist of information at item level, like Item 1 has a material with a net price so and so, item 2 has another material with another net price and so and so.

Schedule line information 
This gives the information of the time a sales order has to be delivered to the customer, to view this select the item you want to view and to the menu under item >> Schedule line. This date is actually calculated from the delivery date in the Sales document.

Schedule line Agreement 
Use the T.code VA31 (and choose Schedule line agreement) : This agreement lets you to predetermine scheduling of different materials with in a given period of time (This is same like the other contracts).

First enter the material with quantity say for example Material 1 Qty: 40, go to Edit from the menu >> Item >> Schedule line There select within the time period defined two dates, say for example on 12: 01: 2005  20 quantity and on 13: 01: 2005 another 20 (The qty has to be same as the one in the sales order) .

Once this is done you have created a schedule line agreement.

Call this agreement in your sales order (with reference) and use them.

Note: You will be able to deliver only 20 qty on the 12th and 20 qty on the 13th, even though the sales order is for qty 40

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