Perform Supplier Tolerance Check
Explanation
Business contracts often include allowable schedule variances with potential
financial penalties if violated. Therefore, it can be crucial for the supplier to
present actual facts and figures associated with the schedule variance's violations.
The two main tolerance calculations are cumulative schedule tolerance and bucketed
schedule tolerance call-off.
- Cumulative Schedule Tolerance: This check shows the cumulative effect of the releases.
The quantity per day is compared to the same period of time for a previous schedule. The
variations are also measured per day on the basis of cumulative requirements.
- Bucketed Schedule Tolerance: This check summarizes schedule quantities into the buckets
defined by the schedule template. Accumulations in like-size buckets are compared to a
tolerance percentage defined for each bucket in the template.
Perform a
tolerance check by using one of the following alternatives:
- Perform a tolerance check directly on a specific
supplier schedule from the
Supplier Schedule window.
- Perform a tolerance check directly on all the supplier schedules that meet
the defined selection criteria in the
Tolerance Check Supplier Schedule
dialog box.
- Create a schedule that performs a
tolerance check on a regular basis on
all the supplier schedules that meet the defined selection criteria in the
Scheduled Tasks. Default settings in the
Tolerance Check Supplier
Schedule
dialog box can be used by selecting the Default
feature. Default settings are derived from the Task Registration
window in IFS Admin, which is set by the administrator.
Note: A supplier schedule can be checked for tolerance even if the
approver is blocked for use.
Prerequisites
- The conditions for the tolerance check method have to be entered in the supplier
schedule agreement.
System Effects
- If all schedule lines are within the stated tolerance, the entire supplier schedule
will receive the Within Tolerance status.
- If one or several schedule lines received the result Out of Tolerance or Not Performed,
the status for the complete schedule will receive the Out of Tolerance status and cannot
automatically continue in the schedule flow.
- If you have scheduled the task as a background job
in the
Tolerance Check Supplier Schedule dialog
box,
the task will be automatically performed based on the specified selection criteria.
Window
Supplier
Schedule
Tolerance Check
Supplier
Schedule
Related Window Descriptions
Supplier Schedule
Tolerance Check
Supplier
Schedule
Procedure
Perform a tolerance check directly on a specific supplier schedule from the
Supplier Schedule window:
- Query for the supplier schedule in question.
- On the Operations menu, click Tolerance Check.
- Click OK to confirm the message that appears.
Perform a tolerance check directly on all the supplier schedules that meet
the defined selection criteria in the
Tolerance Check Supplier Schedule
dialog box:
- Open the
Tolerance Check Supplier Schedule
dialog box.
- If you want to run the reconciliation for all the existing schedules, leave all
the fields blank in
the Parameters group box.
- If you want to use the approver identification, supplier
number,
site, part number, agreement identification, schedule type, or schedule
number as selection
criteria, enter the appropriate values in the respective fields. Do this by entering
values or click List
to select one from the List of Values.
- Click OK to complete the process.
Note: Click Default if you want to use
the default settings.
Create a schedule that
performs a tolerance check on a regular basis on
all the supplier schedules that meet the defined selection criteria in the
Scheduled Tasks:
- Click Schedule to open the New Database Task Schedule
window. Set the scheduling parameters as desired and save. Scheduled tasks
can be seen in Scheduled Database Tasks window.