In Customizing, you can make settings that specify when processes triggered by a confirmation should run. You can use this setting to improve system performance when entering confirmations.

You can specify that the processes run:

• Immediately online

• Immediately in the update task

• Later as a background job.

You can influence the following confirmation processes that you can:

• Posting automatic goods receipt

• Backflushing components

• Determination of actual costs.

In addition, you can specify in Customizing whether these confirmation processes are to be carried out in parallel, or consecutively. You can specify the following:

• Number of parallel tasks

• The server to be used.