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.

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. Query for the supplier schedule in question.
2. On the Operations menu, click Tolerance Check. 
3. 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:

1. Open the Tolerance Check Supplier Schedule dialog box.
2. If you want to run the reconciliation for all the existing schedules, leave all the fields blank in the Parameters group box. 
3. 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.
4. 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:

1. 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.