Processing Order Proposal Items in the Store
Choose this function if you want to process order proposal items from the replenishment process.
Prerequisites
On the SAP Easy Access
screen, choose Forecasting
and
Replenishment
Order Proposal Management
Replenishment
Workbench for Stores
User Maintenance for Store
Manager
and assign a store and a range of
use to the store manager.
Features
The following user interfaces support you in your workflow:
Assortment Display
In this user interface, the assortments (vendor subrange, shelves, merchandise categories) in a store are displayed together with the relevant purchase order items. Replenishment specialists use this interface to guarantee replenishment for an assortment.
Note
This user interface is only available in the Replenishment Workbench for Stores.
Order Proposals Display
In this user interface, all the order proposals for a store are displayed together with the accompanying order proposal items. You can check the quantity of the expected requirements against your planning and target information. You then release the order proposals for the ordering process. Store managers use this interface to ensure replenishment in their store.
In the Product List View, you have the option of letting the system
round the quantities for order proposal items (assuming that a rounding profile
has been maintained in Customizing). The default value is for rounding to
be on. To turn it off, click the Rounding
On
toggle button, which will then change to Rounding
Off
. When rounding is on, the system
rounds quantities in the backend for all new and changed order proposal items
when you save the proposal or perform a check on changed items. The Rounding
column
displays an icon for any item that has a rounded quantity. If you choose the
icon, the system displays the rounding log, indicating the original quantity,
rounded quantity, and the rounding profile used.
Activities
In the selection menu, choose Order
Proposals
. The selection menu is on the right-hand side of
the screen above the product list. According to your area of responsibility,
you create the worklist for the product list by selecting the user
interface. The result of the user interface is visible in the navigation
tree.
Select an object from the navigation tree to display the product list. Depending on your selection, the product list contains order proposal items for an assortment or for various order proposals.
You can process order proposal items in the product list in the following ways, for example:
Release all visible order proposal items
Change order proposal items
Modify automatically created order proposals:
Order quantity
Order unit
Status
Delete and create order proposals
To change an order proposal item, choose the icon with the quick
info text Process
in the product list.
To create or remove an order proposal item, choose the icon with
the quick info Remove
or Add
Product
in the toolbar for the product list. You can add several
products in few steps. You can specify search criteria, in which case the
system displays all orderable products for each source location matching the
search criteria you entered. For example, if you specify a product number,
the screen displays all source locations for that product. When you choose
a product, you then enter the quantity, delivery date, and a reason for changing
the item. When finished, you can check your changes and transfer the line
items that have quantities to the product list. The new items can only be
saved in the product list.
You can release open order proposal items for the purchase order by choosing the icon for the status in the status field of the product list.
You can release open order proposals for the
purchase order by choosing the icon with the quick info text Release
Order Proposals
in the order proposal display.
Note
You can release order proposals in the Order Proposals
user
interface only.
To switch from the product list to the detailed view, choose the Product
Number
hyperlink.
The detailed view contains tab pages that show more detailed information about the order proposal item.
You can choose the following information:
Details
OP Header Exceptions
OP Item Exceptions
Demand Influencing Factors (DIF)
Time Series