Decoupling of Confirmation Processes (SAP Library

Decoupling of Confirmation Processes

Use

When you enter confirmations, various processes are triggered (goods movements are posted, actual costs are determined) that may affect the response time of the confirmation dialog.

You can avoid this by decoupling these processes from the actual confirmation. Decoupling is set up in Customizing.

Features

You can decouple the following confirmation processes:

Automatic goods receipt
Backflushing
Actual cost determination

You can define when each of these processes is to run:

In dialog mode, the processes are triggered immediately. The next dialog step can only take place when all processes have finished.

If an error occurs during actual cost determination or goods movement, you can remove the cause of the error or cancel the processing of the confirmation.

If you are working in the update task, the next dialog step is possible immediately. The data for the processes is passed to the update task without delay and is processed immediately.
If the processes are background jobs, they are not executed immediately. The next dialog step can take place right away.

If you do not make any special settings, processing takes place as usual in dialog mode.

Background Processing

For background processing, note the following:

Future change records are saved for the individual processes. These future change records contain all the necessary information for processing the background job later (see Processing Selected Confirmation Processes). You cannot set deletion flags (status DFVL) for orders with future change records.

In the background job, you schedule the CORUPROC program with a variant. You use the variant to define which processes are to be executed in the job.You schedule the job in Customizing for Process Orders (Operations ® Schedule Background Jobs). For an example of when you can schedule the processes, see Example: Background Processing.

You can process future change records in parallel (see Settings for Decoupling Processes Carried Out During Confirmation). This is useful if a large number of future change records have to be processed in a limited amount of time.

Due to time differences from decoupling, data inconsistencies can arise, which disappear when processing of all future change records is finished. This is the case for instance, if the the confirmed quantity of a material has not yet been posted to stock by the automatic goods receipt.