Initial Exercises—Supplier Schedules 1

Initial Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these initial exercises is to introduce you to the basic functionality in Supplier Schedules, which entails:

IMPORTANT
These initial exercises are intended for instructor use. If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Entering a Supplier Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to introduce you to the basic functionality for entering a supplier schedule manually.

Windows:
Supplier Schedule

Steps: To complete this exercise, perform the following steps.

  1. Open the Supplier Schedule window.
  2. Create a new record (F5).
  3. In the Schedule Type field, select Plan.
  4. In the Site field, select 1.
  5. In the Misc Schedule Info tab Agreement Id field use List of Values (F8) to select Agreement Id 100001.
  6. Save your changes (F12).
  7. Answer yes to the question that appears.
  8. In the Lines tab Qty due column enter 10 pcs for all firm line types, and 50 pcs each for the other line types. Save between each entry (F12).

Processing a Supplier Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to introduce you to the basic functionality for processing a supplier schedule manually.

Windows:
Supplier Schedule
Purchase Order

Steps: To complete this exercise, perform the following steps.

  1. Open the Supplier Schedule window.
  2. Query for your supplier schedule (F3).
  3. On the Operations menu, click Tolerance Check to tolerance check the supplier schedule against the previous released plan.
  4. On the Operations menu, click Approve to approve the supplier schedule.
  5. On the Operations menu, click Release to release the supplier schedule.
  6. On the Commands menu, click Refresh to refresh the supplier schedule.
  7. On a line with line type Firm right-click and then click Purchase Order. The Purchase Order window is displayed on the screen.
  8. Study the purchase order lines that have been created by the release of the supplier schedule.