Symptom
- A user adds a new schedule line for a future year (e.g., 2026) to an existing product line item that already has a quantity schedule.
- The system does not create a completely new, independent schedule line.
- Instead, the system overwrites or consolidates the existing schedule lines, causing the previous entries to be lost or modified.
Environment
SAP Cloud for Customer
Reproducing the Issue
- Open an existing Opportunity (or Sales Quote/Order) in the C4C UI.
- Navigate to the Products facet and select a line item that already has a quantity schedule.
- Go to the Item Quantity Schedule sub-tab. Note the existing schedule lines (e.g., a line for 2025).
- Click Add or edit the schedule to add a new entry for a future period (e.g., a new line for 2026).
- Save the changes.
- The user expects to see both the 2025 and 2026 lines as separate, independent entries.
- The system instead displays a consolidated schedule, often replacing the original 2025 line with the new 2026 entry or a combined total.
Cause
This is the expected and standard system behavior in SAP C4C. The Item Quantity Schedule is designed to manage a single, consolidated delivery plan for a specific product line item. The system enforces data integrity by ensuring that the sum of all schedule lines always equals the total quantity of the parent line item.
When a new schedule line is added, the system does not view it as a separate plan. It triggers a re-evaluation of the entire schedule, consolidating the new entry with the existing data to maintain a single, accurate view of the delivery plan.
In case of migration: The observed exception, where a manual line does not overwrite a migrated line, is a result of data inconsistencies from a migration process and is not a feature of the standard UI.
Resolution
To manage separate and independent delivery schedules for the same product, the user must create separate line items in the sales document.
Correct Process:
- Create the first line item for the product and set its total quantity and schedule (e.g., Line Item 10 for 2025).
- Add the same product as a new, separate line item (e.g., Line Item 20 for 2026).
- Set the total quantity and create a new, independent schedule for this second line item.
This approach ensures that each year's schedule is treated as a distinct business transaction, preventing the system from consolidating or overwriting the schedules.
Keywords
Item Quantity Schedule, Overwritten, Scheduling, Opportunity, Item Quantity, Line Item, Item 10, Item 20 , Quantity Schedule , KBA , LOD-CRM-OPP , Opportunity Management , Problem
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