Internet
Release 
Use
The main difference between Internet releases and "normal" releases is that the former are not transmitted to the vendor via the traditional communications media such as printer, fax, or EDI: instead, the vendor can view such releases via the Internet.
A prerequisite for Internet releases is that the Supplier Workplace has been set up in your SAP System and that the relevant vendors have access to it via the Internet.
You can specify which type of release is to be treated as an Internet release in the release creation profile.
If you wish to use these functions, you must make these settings in the release creation profile (on the tab page Internet).
For more information on the Supplier Workplace, see the release note Supplier Workplace.
The Internet release supports the following business process:
- The release creator no longer sends releases by printing them out and sending them via the regular postal service or transmitting them as fax or EDI messages, but instead makes them available to the vendor via the Internet.
- The vendor regularly takes a look at the current Internet releases in the Supplier Workplace.
- There the vendor can view and explicitly
acknowledge the releases that affect his or her company.
The Internet release counts as outputted when it is acknowledged by the vendor. In contrast, "normal" releases count as outputted when they have been printed out or transmitted to the vendor via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) etc.
- Once the vendor has acknowledged the Internet release, the latter is treated in the SAP System as a "normal" release that has been outputted (printed or transmitted) via the message output facility.
- As an alternative to the acknowledgment
function, you can specify for Internet releases that they count as "outputted"
immediately upon their creation or when such a release is itself released
(cleared for issue after having been blocked).
In such cases, the Internet release is does not have to be explicitly acknowledged by the vendor.
See also
For further information, refer to the SAP Library under MM Purchasing -> Outline Agreements with Vendors -> Scheduling Agreement.