Process Backorders 

Procedure

Access Backorder Processing

  1. Call up the backorder processing.

    2. You can call up the backorder processing using the transaction CO06 or from the relevant application component. Starting from the MRP menu you find the backorder processing by choosing Environment ® Backorder processing® Material.

    The system calls up the initial screen for processing backorders.

  2. Enter the material number of the material to be processed as well as the plant and choose.

The system checks availability according to ATP logic. Use the Scope of the check to display the control parameters of the availability check.

The system calls the overview of backorder processing. In this screen, the system displays the plant stock or the storage location stock, the open sales orders or the dependent reservations and the scheduled receipt elements.

The texts for the receipt and issue elements correspond to the texts that appear in the MRP list. The various stocks (individual customer stock, and so on) and the storage locations are displayed and managed in separate segments.

Processing Sales Orders

The system highlights sales orders or customer requirements that have not yet been completely confirmed or for which no receipt has yet been scheduled. The missing parts are displayed in the column Requirement/receipt.

  1. Double-click the sales order or customer requirement, which is to be confirmed.

In the lower part of the screen, the system displays the detailed data of the selected sales order for the selected date.

The following data is displayed in detail:

Total requirement quantity of the sales order or the customer requirement.

Date by which sufficient quantities of the item must be available.

Quantity that has been confirmed (in sales order management when creating the sales order or in backorder processing).

In this field you can enter the quantity that is to be allocated (that is, confirmed) in backorder processing.

Quantity which can be used when planning open requirement quantities.
  1. Enter the quantity which, according to the ATP quantity, you can allocate to the requirements in the Confirmed quantity field.

Use to display the detailed data of the sales order.
  1. Choose to transfer the quantity confirmed.
  1. Save your entries.

You can process backorders for sales orders only for materials for which you have set the indicator Individual requirements in the material master record (MRP 3 view, Availability check field).

Dependent reservations, stock transfer requisitions and stock transfer orders are processed at the same time.

To do this, choose Settings ® Only SD requirements. From the sales and distribution point of view, backorder processing can also be set in such a way that only the requirements necessary for SD are displayed as missing parts. From the sales and distribution point of view, backorder processing can also be set in such a way that only the requirements necessary for SD are displayed as missing parts. To do this, choose Settings ® Only order reservations.