Site Level Schedules
Define and activate sites for a trading partner and assign a different schedule for each trading partner site.
Trading partner type can be customer, supplier, carrier, and organization. The schedule usage you define for every trading partner type determines what the schedule assigned to the trading partner is used for. For example, if shipping is defined as schedule usage for a trading partner organization, then that schedule is used for shipping. You can define and activate one or more sites for a trading partner. You can assign a different schedule for each trading partner site. Note that setting up schedules at the site level is optional. If a schedule isn't defined at the site level, then the schedule defined at the trading partner level is used. For example, a trading partner has 20 ship-from sites and 18 of those sites have the same schedule for shipping days. In this case, one shipping schedule can be defined for the trading partner and two other shipping schedules for the sites.
Site level schedules enable you to:
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Determine when shipments can be shipped and received at the site
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Validate shipping and receiving days
Determine site level shipping and receiving schedule
Enables you to define a shipping and receiving schedule for a trading partner site.
For example, a trading partner site (referred to in the following list as customer site) is receiving a shipment on Thursday. In this case, ship confirm checks the trading partner site schedules to confirm the following::
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The customer site is activated to receive shipments.
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The customer site can receive goods on Thursday.
Validate shipping and receiving days
The ship confirm process consults your defined site level schedules and warns you about invalid shipping days and hours as necessary.
When you ship confirm a shipment using the ship confirm process, the initial ship date and planned delivery date is checked in the trading partner site schedule. If a trading partner site schedule is defined for your trading partner site, then the initial ship date and planned delivery date are compared against the valid shipping and receiving days on the site schedule. If either the initial ship date or the delivery date falls on an invalid shipping or receiving day for your warehouse and customer site respectively, then alternative valid dates are suggested. For example, if your shipping site schedule allows shipments Monday through Friday, and the ship confirm process calculates an initial ship date that occurs on a Saturday, then Monday is suggested as the alternative initial ship date.