A Delivery Period is a timeframe in which sales orders can be delivered to customers. Orders can be placed for delivery within the specified delivery periods per item. This makes the registration of sales orders easy. The planned delivery dates in sales orders may vary per order line depending on the delivery period that is stored for an item.

An unlimited number of delivery periods can be identified on the page Delivery Periods.

Each period has a starting date and an ending date. The starting date is used to define a planning date for purchase proposals (comparable to ‘shipment date’ on sales orders). The ending date is used to define a cancellation date for items that are not delivered within the delivery period specified.

Delivery periods can be chosen on each item: