Procedure

You can reject a sales order item with a third-party delivery in situations when the supplier cannot deliver the full ordered quantity. For instance, when there are material shortages or when the supplier does not deliver the exact order quantity and slightly less. The latter typically happens for deliveries of bulk materials, liquids, or tiny (not pre-packaged) materials with a high order quantity.

In such a situation, you reject the non-deliverable quantity of the sales order item by setting the appropriate indicator for the corresponding purchase order item. You can do this manually during processing purchase orders when entering a vendor invoice (Final Invoice" indicator) or when posting a statistical goods receipt (Delivery Completedindicator) for the purchase order item. Based on Customizing settings for the Goods receipt posting, the system can also set the Delivery Completed indicator automatically during the statistical goods receipt when the delivery quantity falls within defined tolerance limits.