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Maintain Confirmation Control

In this activity, you configure the following settings:

The R/3 System provides for internal and external confirmation categories. These categories stand for confirmations that are entered into the system automatically, for example, through EDI or entered manually (external).
You can maintain as many external confirmation catetories as you wish. These only serve as texts.
You can assign two external confirmation categories of your choice to the internal confirmation categories. Using this assignment, the system recognizes which confirmation category stands for order confirmations and which for shipping notifications. In this way, purchasing documents are automatically updated with data form the respective confirmations, that is, no manual entry is required.
In this activity you define which different confirmation categories you are going to have in your R/3 System.
With internal confirmation categories, you can define whether these are to serve for information purposes only or also to be used for goods receipt or material requirements planning.
For purchase orders that use confirmations, you must specify a confirmation control key. In this activity you can define which different confirmation categories are expected for a purchase order.
Example
You can define a confirmation control key with only one confirmation category (shipping notification)) and one confirmation control key that combines several confirmation categories (order and loading confirmation, as well as shipping notification).
With the confirmation sequence you can define in which time sequence the individual confirmations are expected within a confirmation control key and which confirmation categories are to be monitored automatically.

Activities

If you want to set the confirmation monitoring function, proceed as follows:

1. Select External confirmation categories or internal confirmation categories to define the confirmation category.
2. Select confirmation control key to define the confirmation control key.
3. Select the confirmation sequence to define the confirmation sequence.
Define the sequence, enter the monitoring period in the column MP, and set a key in the column D.
The following keys can be set:
Key, meaning
1 Order date plus monitoring period
2 Delivery date minus monitoring period
If, for example, you enter 10 in the column MP and set the key "2" in the column D , the system selects all items that were not yet confirmed in the purchase order 10 days before the delivery date.
The respective items are issued with the date in the confirmation monitoring function.