Jawad Akhtar

SAP Planned Delivery Time (PDT) is the estimated number of calendar days it takes for a company to receive an order from a vendor after a purchase order (PO) has been placed. PDT is used in SAP material requirements planning (MRP) and procurement scheduling to determine the last data a PO can be triggered and still have the purchase arrive on time. Simply put, PDT estimates how much lead time a vendor needs to process a purchase order, fill the order and deliver it to the customer.

By Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor Diann Daniel, Executive Editor Jawad Akhtar SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) is an on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. ECC is also the set of core modules found in SAP ERP. SAP ECC aims to provide an integrated overview of an organization's core business processes. It does this by integrating digital information that's created in one area of a business with data from other areas of the same business in real time.

Whether you're an SMB or a large enterprise, solid inventory management techniques are critical for success. Inventory management, a component of supply chain management (SCM), controls the flow of goods from manufacturers to warehouses to points of sale. Consequently, every inventory discussion becomes a supply chain discussion. And success for every supply chain means fulfilling demand in a competitively reliable way.