Check Factory Calendar

The public holiday and factory calendar is a central module in the SAP System. I
t is used in many areas (e.g. in Logistics and in Human Resources) in the standa
rd version.
You can use calendar maintenance to maintain and display the components of the c
alendar system. The public holiday and factory calendar data calculated from cal
endar maintenance is directly available to the system.
A factory calendar is allocated to your plant via another Customizing function.
The calendar system consists of the following components:
Public holidays
Definitions for public holidays: Calculation rule for date, religious denominati
on etc.
Public holiday calendar
Any composition of public holiday rules.
Factory calendar
Definition of workdays including special regulations, under the assignment of a
particular public holiday calendar.
Standard Settings
The system delivers definitions of all common public holidays and public holiday
rules, as well as a standard factory calendar.
A main memory area of 400000 Bytes is reserved for calendar data in the standard
version. This is the mimimum buffer size, which you should not go under.
Activities
Check whether all the definitions for public holidays and public holiday rules t
hat you need are available in the sytem. If necessary, maintain the public holid
ay definitions and copy them to new or existing public holiday rules.
Create factory calendars if necessary.
Public holidays
Check that existing public holidays are complete, and create new definitions if
required:
1. Double-click with the mouse on the Execute symbol, select the option Public h
olidays and choose the function Display.
2. Check whether the list of public holidays displayed contains all the public h
olidays that you need.
If you want to see detailed information on any public holiday, choose the functi
on Display def.
3. If you need other public holidays, return to the initial screen of the mainte
nance transaction, and choose the function Change.
4. Choose the function Insert, and now make the following entries:
Public holiday type
Date or calculation rule
Public holiday text (short and long)
If required: Sort criterion, religious denomination or public holiday class (for
notes on this, press the F1 Help).
Save the definition.
Public holiday calendar
Combine the public holidays you require in a public holiday rule in the public h
oliday calendar:
1. Double-click with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public h
oliday calendar and choose the function Display.
2. Check whether all the public holiday rules that your require are available.
To get the definitions for a public holiday calendar, position the cursor on it
and choose the function Display def. .
3. If you need other public holiday calendars or would like to change existing o
nes, return to the initial screen of the maintenance transaction and choose the
function Change.
4. To create a public holiday calendar, choose the function Insert (to change a
public holiday calendar, position the cursor on it and choose Change ), and make
the following entries:
Calendar ID and a descriptive short text

Period of validity (From year, To year)

5. Using the function Assign public holidays, generate a complete list of define
d public holidays.
6. Select the public holidays you need, and choose Assign public holidays.
7. Save your entries.
Factory calendar
Define a factory calendar including the relevant public holiday calendar:
1. Double-click with the mouse on "Execute function", select the option Public h
oliday calendar and choose the function Display.
2. In calendar maintenance, select the option "Factory calendar", and choose the
function Change.
3. Choose the function Insert and make the following entries:
Factory calendar ID and a descriptive short text
Period of validity (From year, To year)
Public holiday calendar ID
Start no. factory date
Number from which the factory date is incremented for each workday.
If you do not make an entry, the default value is "0".
4. Decide which days of the week are meant to be workdays.
5. Define special rules if necessary (e.g. plant holidays).
Further Notes
Calendar buffer
If you want to increase the size of the calendar buffer, maintain the parameter
zcsa/calendar_area with the maintenance transaction for system profiles. Restart
the system for the value to take effect.
Transport
Changes to calendar data are not automatically included in a correction request.
For the calendar data to be utilizable in another system, use the function Trans
port in the initial screen of the maintenance transaction.
Note that you cannot transport individual public holidays or calendars. You can
only transport calendar data in its entirety. When you do this, all public holid
ays, public holiday and factory calendars existing in the target system are dele
ted.