Perform Customer Tolerance Check, Manually
Explanation
Business contracts often include allowable schedule variances with perhaps
financial penalties for the customer if violated. It can therefore be crucial
for the supplier to present actual facts and figures associated with the schedule
variances' 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.
Users can choose to execute the tolerance check either manually or automatically.
'Automatic' tolerance check means that tolerance checks are run automatically
upon approval of the customer schedule. The manual tolerance check can either
be executed on the Tolerance
Check Customer Schedule page,
the Customer Schedule
page, or the Customer Schedules page.
Note: A tolerance check can be performed even if the approver is blocked
for use.
Prerequisites
- The conditions for the tolerance check method have to be entered in
the customer schedule agreement.
System Effects
- If all schedule lines where within the stated tolerance the entire customer
schedule will receive the Within Tolerance status.
- If one or several schedule lines received the result Out of Tolerance,
the status for the complete schedule will receive the Out of Tolerance
status and cannot automatically continue in the schedule flow.