Planning Schedule with Release Capability

Based on the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 format, the 830 is used to provide customary and established business practices relative to the transfer of forecasting and/or material-release information between organizations. The planning schedule transaction may be used in a combination of ways, such as: (1) a simple forecast; (2) a forecast with the buyer's authorization for the seller to commit to resources, such as labor or material; (3) a forecast that is also used as an order release mechanism containing such elements as resource authorizations, period-to-date cumulative quantities and specific ship/delivery patterns for requirements that have been represented in "buckets," such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly. The order release forecast may also contain all data related to purchase orders, as required, because the order release capability eliminates the need for discrete generation of purchase orders.