Synchronization Maintenance - Purpose

The Synchronization Maintenance program (GA180E) allows the user to track discrepancies between ordered and delivered quantities up to a certain shipment and to modify this Synchronization data.  On the select screen (GA180S01), the user specifies delivery point, order, and item for the Synchronization data that he wants to update.  The detail screen (GA180S02) displays the customer's and shipper's data with their expected and received quantities.  The number of the last shipment received on the customer's side is shown.

Synchronization data is maintained simultaneously by the customer and the supplier.  Vendors' shipments and customers' receipts are compared and a delivery advance/backorder status is calculated for each item/delivery point relationship (Automatic Reconciliation program GA205E).  The data transmitted by the customer and the delivery request in the DELINS message (see program description GA210E) contains the Synchronization date, the last shipment number (given by an AVIEXP message number), and two of the three following elements:

·     Cumulative expected quantity

·     Cumulative received quantity

·     Delivery advance/backorder (cumulative quantity received minus cumulative received)

The vendor's (user's) Synchronization data is maintained within Synchro in the Item/Delivery Point Master (GA120M2).  The data compares the items shipped (DPTSHP) with those items that should be shipped at the end of the day (DPTSDU) to meet the customer's delivery requests.  A negative difference (DPTSDU - DPTSHP) means a delivery advance; a positive difference means that there are still some outstanding shipping proposals.  A negative value is saved as a positive value in the backlog quantity field (DPBLQ) on the Item/Delivery Point Master (GA120M2); likewise, a positive value is stored as a negative value in the backlog quantity field (DPBLQ) on the Item/Delivery Point Master (GA120M2).

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