Supplier scheduling consolidates the short term and long term demand and communicates to Suppliers.

Planning Schedule: Planning schedule covers the forecast as well as future MRP planned orders information. This helps supplier to plan/forecast his production schedule.

Shipment schedule: This communicates the near term firm requirements and any other past due shipments.

Supplier scheduling options and bucket patterns defines output format of what will be sent to suppliers. Supplier Scheduling module requires Purchasing (mandatory) and MRP (optional) as supportive modules for related information.