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Confirmation: Changes in 3.0
Description
In Release 3.0, the following changes were made to the confirmation
functions:
- Confirmation at order header level
You can now enter confirmations at order header
level. All operations that are to be confirmed are confirmed in proportion to
quantity.
- Confirmation with reference
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.
- Confirmation of time events
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).
- New functions for plant data collection
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.
- Confirming individual capacities
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.
Here you can
- display and, if necessary, change the planned receipt to stock during
automatic goods receipt,
- display and, if necessary, change the components to be backflushed
- enter unplanned goods movements.
- Confirmation counter on initial screen
To display or cancel a confirmation, you can
enter the confirmation counter of the confirmation concerned directly on the
initial screen.
- Validation of the personnel number - authorization
An indicator in HR specifies, whether a direct
update occurs. If a direct update occurs, completion confirmation data is
checked in HR.
- Actual data can be scrolled
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.
- Triggering a workflow from a confirmation
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).
- Generation of error records for failed material
issues
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.
- Indicator: All components
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.