SAP ABAP Data Element FRMDATUM (Date)

Hierarchy

☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ LO-MDS (Application Component) Merchandise Distribution
     ⤷ WFRM (Package) ISR: Cross-Docking and Floor-Ready Merchandise

Basic Data

Data Element	FRMDATUM
Short Description	Date

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	DATUM
Data Type	DATS	Date field (YYYYMMDD) stored as char(8)
Length	8
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	10
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Date
Medium	15	Date
Long	20	Date
Heading	10	Date

Documentation

Definition

The date you enter defines the procurement period.

How the procurement period is interpreted is closely linked to the schedule line interval. Both are the central control parameters for calculating the schedule lines in a collective purchase order item.

Details:

• The selected issue document items result in time spots by which deliveries have to be generated. If, for example, a delivery is planned for 15.5. to a customer and 5 days are required to process the delivery and ship it to the customer, the delivery has to be created by 10.5.
• The system checks if all deliveries for a document item are to be generated in the period specified.
• The user selects all documents for which deliveries have to be created in the period.
• To reduce the storage time of the materials delivered by the vendor, the schedule lines in the vendor purchase order are created so that the quantities procured are just enough to be fully issued in the period concerned. This period is the schedule-line interval.
• At the start of the procurement period, the system attempts to create the first schedule line in the purchase order. It adds up all the schedule lines in the issue documents for a material and issuing plant. If a finite value is produced, the schedule line is created. Otherwise it is not created.

Example

(using a material and distribution center)

3 sales orders:

K1 15 pieces for 15.5.

K2 25 pieces for 16.5.

K3 13 pieces for 18.5.

It takes 3 days to get the goods to the customer. This results in a procurement period of 12.5. - 15.5. and a schedule-line interval of 2 days, for example.

The system therefore generates two schedule lines (goods receipt processing takes 1 day): 11.5. - 40 pieces and 14.5. - 13 pieces.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19980505
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