The confirmation with the confirmation category AB (standard, hardcoded) is integrated in the order based on various checks. Other keys are allowed but unlike AB are not supported.

If a vendor initially sends a partial confirmation for only two schedule lines for an item that has three schedule lines, you can expect further order confirmations. As soon as another partial confirmation arrives via EDI, all of the old confirmations will be deleted that have the same confirmation category and have been entered via EDI. All of the old data is replaced by the data of the current confirmation.

In order to uniquely identify an item/schedule line in a purchase order, you need the following information:

• ALE-ID E1EDP02: QUALF (J30) BELNR(ALE-ID) or
• Item E1EDP02: QUALF (001) ZEILE(Item) BELNR (Document) and
• Schedule line E1J3P01: J_3APOSNR (schedule line)

• All of the available material-specific data (for example, grid value, category).

If the ALE ID, item, and schedule line are not completely available, it may not be possible to assign a confirmation to a purchase order/item/schedule line.

In texts in the shipping notification, an ,&’ must be used as a placeholder for the shipping notification number in the segment E1TXTH8.

If schedule lines have been deleted from a purchase order, the relevant confirmation will not be deleted in the case of ALE/EDI. You might have to delete these manually from the order.