A completion confirmation documents the processing status of orders, operations, phases and individual capacities. As such, completion confirmations are used to monitor the progress of process orders.

A completion confirmation is used to record

• The quantity processed in a phase

• How much activity is used to carry out a phase

• The actual dates of a phase

• The resource at which the phase is carried out

• Who carried out the phase.

Precise completion confirmations are important in realistic and exact production planning.

A completion confirmation can cause:

• A reduction in the capacity load on the resource

• An update of the costs, based on the confirmed data

• An update of the order data, such as times or order status

• Withdrawal postings for backflushed components

• An automatic goods receipt (only for one phase per order)

• MRP relevant update of the expected yield in the order.