The solution for Analysis and Copying of SD Scheduling Agreements (transaction SACO) has been released as of SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Package 2, as part of the industry extension Discrete Industries & Mill Products (ECC-DIMP 602). This solution is very beneficial for suppliers running their Order-to-Cash process based on scheduling agreements, a process well-established in automotive and other manufacturing industries.
The sales document flow tends to grow massively over the lifetime of a scheduling agreement, reducing performance when processing delivery documents or scheduling agreement releases. The SACO solution addresses this challenge. Specifically, when copying a scheduling agreement, all the header and item data are copied (except the header and item data copied from master data) together with the most recent scheduling agreement releases, but not the document flow entries. Thus, the new scheduling agreement starts with only a created correction delivery, ensuring the same cumulative delivered and issued quantity as for the existing scheduling agreement. For the purchasing scheduling agreements, it is required that there is no activity at the customer.
Unfortunately, the SACO solution had been enabled only for normal scheduling agreements with releases (standard document type LZ).
For Just-in-Time (JIT) or Just-in-Sequence (JIS) processing, suppliers use JIT scheduling agreements (standard document type LZJ or LZJQ) and face a considerably faster growth of document flow entries due to more frequent shipping. Especially in JIS processing, complex products supplied can have hundreds of different components shipped together, accumulating millions of document flow entries to be considered in delivery document processing.
Report program RJITCOP001 enables the copy of JIT scheduling agreements. However, it is structured differently from SACO, where SACO provides more convenience in selecting relevant documents (e.g., by organization, by number of document flow entries), more options in parameter settings and more detailed logging. Thus, the functionality of report RJITCOP001 has been merged into transaction SACO, for simplification and optimization, allowing companies to process normal scheduling agreements with releases and JIT scheduling agreements together and in the same manner.
Based on customer feedback, a few usability and security improvements have been added to SACO:
With SACO, scheduling agreements to be copied can be selected by organizational data, according to the responsibility of dedicated users, and by the size of the respective document flow.
In online / foreground mode, a list of scheduling agreement documents based on the selection and filter criteria is displayed, and the user can analyze the data before picking documents from the list and starting the copy process.
The copy process itself is done in background task, as it uses batch input to create and adapt each new scheduling agreement as well as to reject the existing ones. Depending on the number of documents to be created and changed, this may take some time. With the new user notification, the user does not need to access the application log to check progress, but will receive a message when the copy process is complete.
Necessary configuration for SACO
Remarks to the parameters of SACO:
Report Parameter | User Parameter |
Min. Size of DocFlow (Header) | SACO_DOCNR_HEAD |
Min. Size of DocFlow (Item) | SACO_DOCNR_ITEM |
Reason for Rejection (canc SA) | SACO_REJREAS_CANC_SA |
Reason for Rejection (new SA) | SACO_REJREAS_NEW_SA |
Max. No. of Docs for Info Msg | SACO_CRIT_NUM_DOC |
Distribution list name | SACO_DL_NAME |
Remarks to the SACO report log:
SAP Notes
SAP Note 1896120 - IS-A-ESD : Enhancement of SACO for JIT scheduling agreements
SAP Note 1986853 - IS-A-ESD : Improvements to SACO (Scheduling Agreement Copy)
SAP Note 2033809 - SACO : No user notification when the log is complete
SAP Note 2037976 - SACO: No authorization check on Sales Organization
SAP Note 2095807 - SACO : Unable to implement note 2037976
SAP Note 2100963 - SACO: Performance issues due to delete of JIT shared buffer
SAP Help
Application Help on Analysis and Copying of Scheduling Agreements
Automotive Innovations for ECC-DIMP 6.02 (including Analysis and Copying of Scheduling Agreements)
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