Arrival date

(S4)PACG SP05

The arrival date determination feature applies only to the service order-based integration scenario.

FSM Connector is now capable of calculating an arrival date for reserved materials and then sending an update to the FSM. To achieve that a new report was created /PACG/ECM_RMAT_ARRIVAL (transaction /PACG/ECM_RMAT_ARRIV - Reserved Material - arrival date ).

The Arrival Date is also determined automatically right after reserved material creation however the logic behind its determination is very simplified - requirement date for component is used. Proper, scenario-dependent dates are determined after executing program /PACG/ECM_RMAT_ARRIV - Reserved Material - arrival date, which should be scheduled as a regular job.

This report can take following parameters:

Order (service orders number) - range of service orders' number for which reservations should be checked
Material - range of materials included in the reservations
Created on - range of reservation creation dates (the dates when reservation was created and not the orders they belong to)

The ‘Arrival date’ itself depends on the type of the process:

MM Process – Purchase requisition & Purchase Order
First date is picked from purchase requisition and it is requested delivery date. When purchase order is created then confirmation lines needs to be considered. For this, new config should be built where it should be defined which categories of confirmation lines should be considered and in what order (depending on company Id). Similarly to the SD process, if there is more than one line, the latest date must always be taken. If there are no confirmation lines, ‘delivery schedule’ must be checked and ‘delivery date’ needs to be taken.
SD Process – Consignation fill-up
In case of SD documents schedule lines should be considered and ‘delivery date’ needs to picked up. In case of multiple schedule lines latest (worst) delivery date should be considered

Arrival date used to be displayed only for reserved materials before goods issue for delivery. However, the time between goods movement and arrival to the customer can take longer. (S4)PACG SP13 Now, the delivery date is also determined for reserved materials after goods movement for delivery. At first, the arrival date is copied from the related unshipped ('R') reserved material entry. Then it can be recalculated with program /PACG/ECM_RMAT_ARRIV - Reserved Material - arrival date if schedule lines change.

DC Process and reservation on ‘VAN stock’
In case of these two the only date that can be used as arrival date is requested delivery date and then potentially after activity get released the actual planned date could be used