Understanding Supplier Contract Information
When you set up a supplier contract that is based on a blanket order, you can define information such as time fence periods and releasable schedule days. You can also specify a delivery location, a minimum shipment quantity, and a shipment lead time. Finally, you can define whether you display the supplier schedule in days, weeks, or months.
When you generate a schedule, the system:
Sorts blanket order releases that are outstanding into appropriate time periods.
Accumulates past due quantities and quantities that you received before the requested date.
Expresses past due amounts as positive numbers in the Past Due field.
Expresses early receipt amounts in the Early Receipt field and adds the amounts to the cumulative received quantity.
When you regenerate the schedule, the system displays the quantities in the Past Due and Early Receipt fields on the Vendor Schedule Master Revisions form. When you delete supplier information, the system deletes the entire record, including the history.