Understanding Demand Scheduling Sales Orders

A demand sales order is a sales order that is generated when you run the Create Demand Schedule program (R40R010). Created or updated sales orders reflect what items must be shipped to meet the customer's schedule. Changes that you make to a demand sales order must be done using the Demand Maintenance program (P40R10).

You can use this report to perform these types of processes:

• Create and update demand sales orders or forecasts.

• Calculate plan or firm fences.

• Calculate ahead/behind amounts.

• Calculate standard pack rounding.

You use Data Selection to specify how and when the system calculates and processes this information. For example, you can specify a time-of-day schedule (typically after the daily EDI messages have been processed into the demand tables), or whether to run this application automatically after the demand business function is finished processing, or manually from the menu.

Note: The system processes deleted demand records by deleting sales order entry items. On the Process tab, if you leave the F4211 Ship Date and Ship Time Update processing option blank, the system does not update the Promised Ship Date field or the Promised Ship Time field on the remaining, non-canceled sales order lines.If you enter a 1, the system updates non-canceled sales order lines with a ship time of zero, when sales order lines are canceled due to deleted demand information.

The system recognizes a demand sales order based on the Demand ID, which links the order to its original demand scheduling record. The system also associates demand sales orders to the originating demand scheduling record using other demand related fields that you can review in the Sales Order Entry application (P4210).

Note: The system disables the demand fields on the SOE Additional Information form (W4210B) when the Demand ID field is populated on the record in demand scheduling, or if the Demand Scheduling (40R) system is not enabled.

You can create demand sales orders using combinations of these values:

• Branch/Plant

• Sold To

• Ship To

• Promised Ship Date

• Promised Ship Time

• Customer PO

When the system creates or modifies sales orders, it also creates or modifies shipments and carton recommendations automatically for tracking orders and creating shipments.

For making deductions to backordered sales order lines, the system first deducts all the backordered lines if they exist. The system then processes the line having the least quantity backordered. If backordered lines do not exist, or backordered lines are all adjusted and canceled, the system processes the non-backordered lines with the least quantity first.