Setting Up Customer Sequence Schedules
With this module, you set up system-wide defaults in Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24). You then use Customer Controls Maintenance
(7.5.4.1) to set up customer control records for customers that should have different values than the system-wide control program values.
When you initially activate the Customer Sequence Schedules module, various programs are automatically updated to be used with this module (Table 3.3). If you deactivate Customer Sequence Schedules after you initially activate it, the modified programs function as they did before they were updated.
Setting Control Program Values
Use Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24) to activate the Customer Sequence Schedules module and define general default values for all customers that use sequence schedules.
Fig. 3.1
Sequence Schedule Control (7.5.4.24)
Schedule Order Default sets a default value for the Sequenced field in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance (7.3.13). All other field values in Sequence Schedule Control default to corresponding fields in
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Customer Controls Maintenance (7.5.4.1). You can modify the defaults you define here as needed for individual customers in Customer Controls Maintenance.
Use the following field descriptions to guide you through the control program setup.
Enable Sequence Schedules. Enter Yes to enable the Sequence Schedules module.
Schedule Order Default. Enter Yes if you typically create customer schedules with sequence information in your manufacturing environment.
The value you specify here defaults to the Sequenced field in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance, where it determines whether the scheduled order contains sequence information. You can change it as needed for individual orders.
Include Seq in Req Ship Sched. Enter Yes to include sequence schedule data in required ship schedules (RSS).
This sets the default value for the same field in the Sequenced Delivery Data frame in Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance, unless a customer control record has already been created for the ship-to on the scheduled order. In this case, the value defaults from the customer control record.
Firm Days. Enter the number of work days from the sequence schedule that should be used to create the required ship schedule for planning purposes. This field applies only when Include Seq in RSS is Yes. This value defaults to Customer Scheduled Order
Maintenance.
Enter 0 (zero), the default, to use the entire sequence schedule to generate the required ship schedule. When you specify more days than are available on the sequence schedule, the entire schedule is used.
Example One of your customers works 6-day weeks. That customer sends 8 weeks of sequenced shipping data, but you want to consider only the first 2 weeks as firm shipping requirements. In this case, you would enter 12 in the Firm Days field.
Packing Order. Indicate the order in which to print packing lists for sequenced requirements, Forward or Reverse.
Sequences Per Container. Specify the maximum number of sequences that can fit in a container. This value is used by Pre-Shipper/Shipper–Automatic and Sequence Pre-Shipper–Automatic to display breaks between multiple containers.
This value must be the default 0 (zero) or any positive number.
Example A customer uses uniform containers that can hold 10 sequences each and a pre-shipper is built containing 50 sequences.
The sequence packing list will display 5 groups of 10 sequences. This is a guide to help the loading-dock worker know how many
containers to pack.
Merge Schedules. Specify whether the open requirements of the currently active schedule should be combined with the new incoming schedule during EDI eCommerce document import.
This option is used when customers send future requirements to add to the current schedule but do not send existing requirements previously sent on another schedule.
Yes: The incoming schedule is combined with the currently active schedule to create a new release containing the open requirements from both schedules.
No: The incoming schedule becomes the active schedule. The open requirements from the previous release are not considered.
Check Sequence Tolerance. Enter Yes to have the system check schedule sequence numbers for gaps. Specify the size of acceptable gaps in Maximum Tolerance. The system issues a warning if it detects numbering gaps greater than the value specified.
When set to Yes, the system checks for gaps when you:
• Import a sequence schedule
• Manually add sequences to a schedule in Sequence Schedule Maintenance
Example This field is Yes and Maximum Tolerance is 2. You process a schedule with sequences 1, 2, 5, 6, 7. No warning message displays because only two numbers are missing. However, with Maximum Tolerance set to 1, the same sequence generates a warning.
Some environments use alphanumeric sequence numbers. In these cases set Check Sequence Tolerance to No because the system cannot check alphanumeric sequence range integrity. The system issues a warning whenever the value is set to Yes and an alphanumeric sequence number is processed.
Maximum Tolerance. Enter the maximum allowable size of the gap in consecutive sequence numbers on a schedule. When Check Sequence Tolerance is Yes, the system issues a warning when it detects
numbering gaps greater than the value specified. When Check Sequence Tolerance is No, the system disregards this field.
Enter 0 (zero) to issue a warning whenever any gaps in sequence number are found.
Print Sequence Range on Shipper. Specify whether to print the range of sequence numbers when printing shippers. The range of sequence numbers included on the shipper prints immediately following the list of items being shipped.
Example You confirm and print a shipper that has 111 sequences.
The sequences included on the shipper are sequences 1 to 10, 20, and 25 to 125. Set this value to Yes to print the following three sequence ranges on the shipper.
01 to 10 20 to 20 25 to 125
Print Sequence Range on Invoice. Specify whether to print the range of sequence numbers included on the invoice. This is the same range printed on the shipper.
Send Sequence with ASN. Specify whether sequences should be included when advanced ship notices (ASN) are transmitted using EDI eCommerce.
Send Sequence with Invoice. Specify whether sequences should be included when invoices are transmitted using EDI eCommerce.