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Delivery calls serve in particular automobile suppliers for it changes of demand (order quantity, order lead date) to the suppliers to transfer. A condition for delivery calls are skeleton agreements between customer and supplier, which make among other things confirmation of orders redundant. The results of the employment of a delivery call system is the partial assumption of the storekeeping by the supplier with simultaneous omission or at least the reduction storekeeping at the customer (Just in Time). For delivery call systems the use of progress numbers is characteristic.

Within the delivery call are the so-called organizations, in which is communicated, when a certain quantity of an article in-long is to be placed or ready for the dispatch. The first organizations are fixed mostly, i.e. they are not any longer changed, while the further organizations, which extend for one period up to one year or longer a preview function result in and in the run the time still change can.

Delivery calls can have replacing or supplementing function. That means the fact that with a replacing function, which organizations of the last call overwritten and so that becomes invalid, while the supplementing function only supplements the old organizations and cumulates. Usually the replacing function is selected, since it is more easily in the EDP manageable.

In the delivery calls however still additional information can be sent. Thus the last taken in supply is indicated, so that the progress number with the goods, which still on the way are be co-ordinated can. In addition periods can be communicated, for which be before-produced or raw material can be purchased.

In many cases additionally to the delivery call still fine calls are sent, which concern only the next supplies, but and usually are binding not to be no more changed. The delivery call gets thereby only more a preview function around more long-term planning to accomplish to be able.

Dispatch of the delivery calls

The delivery calls are sent regularly to the supplier. This can happen in the form of fax. Increased however EDI is used in order to ensure a constant automated data transfer of the customer system into the supplier system without necessity for a manual data input.

The federation of the automobile industry published VDA standards for EDI for example for delivery calls:

  • VDA 4905: Delivery calls
  • VDA 4915: Fine calls
  • VDA 4916: Production-synchronous calls/JIT/JIS

In addition, other organizations developed, as for example appropriate message types Odette the DELINS for delivery calls and DELJIT for fine calls or Produltionssynchrone of calls. Even in newer standards, like with EDIFACT one finds the message type DELFOR.


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