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Confirmation: Changes in 3.0

Description

In Release 3.0, the following changes were made to the confirmation functions:

You can now enter confirmations at order header level. All operations that are to be confirmed are confirmed in proportion to quantity.
You can use the values of a previous confirmation as default values in your current confirmation. The confirmation counter is used to identify which confirmation should be used as a reference.
You can now confirm time events (for example, setup start, setup finish, processing finish) at operation level. The system calculates the duration of the operation segments (for example, duration of setup = setup finish - setup start).
Via PDC, you can confirm time events and time tickets.
In order to carry out certain checks on the actual data confirmed in the subsystem, order data is transferred into the subsystem. Consequently, the number of incorrect PDC records that need to be processed in the SAP System is reduced.
You can assign any number of employees (PD system) / individual capacities to a capacity category. These subdivisions of so-called capacity splits.
For each capacity split confirmed, you can determine costs and reduce the capacities. Since, however, the confirmation of multiple splits might lead to multiple confirmations of the same activities or quantities, you can specify via an indicator in capacity planning, whether the actual values of a capacity split are to be written into the operation.
You can now specify via an indicator that the final confirmation of an order automatically causes all open reservations to be posted for the operation concerned.
You can now branch directly from the confirmation into the material overview.
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To display or cancel a confirmation, you can enter the confirmation counter of the confirmation concerned directly on the initial screen.
An indicator in HR specifies, whether a direct update occurs. If a direct update occurs, completion confirmation data is checked in HR.
The screen for the entry of actual data has now been increased so that you can enter all actual data for an operation (for example quantities, activities and personnel data) on the same screen.
You make the triggering of a workflow dependent on a user status which can be set manually or automatically (i.e. when a particular reason for variance is entered in a confirmation).
In Releases 2.1 and 2.2, the system set a the status WDFL (withdrawal failed) in a component, if it could not be backflushed, even though backflushing was planned.
As of Release 3.0, this status is no longer set. Instead, a separate error record is written for every failed material issue.
In order to generate error records for failed material issues which occurred before Release 3.0 you must start a report. Please read the release note 'Error records for failed material issues'.

Further information on the new functions in confirmation can be found in the manual PP - Production orders.

Change system parameters in customizing

In Release 3.0, the following changes were carried out in Customizing for confirmation:

The following parameters were introduced for confirmation:
This indicator specifies that when you confirm an operation, the system automatically proposes a final confirmation which includes the posting of any open reservations for the operation.
This indicator spedifies that all components allocated to an operation are displayed in the overview of the goods movements (i.e., not only backflushed components).
This indicator specifies that an error log is displayed for goods movements with errors (for backflushing / automatic goods receipts), and that you can correct the errors in the material overview before posting the confirmation.
You can now modify certain fields for the confirmation screens. Via the field selection, you can specify, for example, whether a field is displayed and whether it requires an entry.
If necessary, maintain the field selection for confirmation. Further information can be found in the Implementation Guide.