Entering Completion Confirmations (SAP Library

Entering Completion Confirmations
Use

You can confirm data

For a phase

You have two options:

To confirm quantities, durations, activities or personnel data, enter a confirmation for a time confirmation ticket.
To confirm specific times (such as start or finish processing), enter a confirmation for a time event.

When you confirm specific events, the system calculates the confirmed duration (for example, the time between start and finish of processing counts as the duration of processing).

The following applies for time event confirmations:

Every confirmed time event is assigned internally to a record type group. Processing time events are assigned to record type group 2.

Each record type group can be assigned to one or more parameters in the standard value key of the resource (such as machine time). The link between time event and parameter ensures that the calculated duration counts as an activity (for example, when calculating the actual costs of the phase/operation).

The processing of a phase requires both machine time and labor time. The time event confirmation for the processing section of the phase can take effect on activity "machine time" and on "processing time", if you enter record type group "2" for the parameters "machine" and "labor" in the standard value key.

You can only confirm quantities when you confirm time events.

You can only confirm activities that cannot be assigned to a particular record type group by using the time event "Variable activity". The confirmed value is assigned to a corresponding value in the standard value key parameters.

You can generate confirmations as follows:

Manually, during order processing. This applies to all the above data.

As part of process control by transferring messages on phase status. See also R/3 Integration Using Process Messages.
For the individual confirmations, you have the following options:
Time Event Confirmation for Phases
Time Event Confirmation for Secondary Resources

Only in exceptional cases as part of inspection results recording from QM, only when inspection points are used. If you are not using inspection points, it is possible to return to the confirmation transaction, but no confirmation is automatically transferred from results recording.
See also QM documentation on inspection management/inspection recording. As a rule, you should not use this method in process manufacturing, for the following reasons:

- QM returns the yield. In process industries, this quantity as a rule, does not
equal the processing quantity. However, the processing quantity is required to
determine the activity required.

- Simultaneous confirmation from QM and process control (message on phase
status) is not allowed.
For this reason, the indicator that controls the recording of confirmations
issued by QM, is preassigned ‘no confirmation’ in PP-PI.

For an order

If you enter a confirmation at order header level, the system confirms all the operations and phases in the order which, according to their control key, can be confirmed or must be confirmed. These phases are confirmed in proportion to the quantity entered at header level.

Within process control, you can have the relevant orders confirmed during Material Flow Postings Between Process Orders.

For several phases at the same time

If you use the collective entry function, you can confirm the following data for several phases from different orders at the same time:
yield
reason for variance
personnel number
resource

For each phase, you can also specify whether the entry is a final confirmation.

If, during a collective confirmation, you set the indicator "final confirmation" for a phase, and the indicator "Open reservations" is set in the confirmation parameters in Customizing, the system automatically clears any open reservations for that phase.