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 Entering Confirmations

Use

You use this function to enter confirmations that you have received from your vendors, for example, by fax or post.

You can:

Enter new confirmations

Change confirmations

Because the system always creates a new confirmation when confirmations are changed, this function is suitable for entering new confirmations and not for correcting existing confirmations.

Use the proposed data of the last confirmation

Copyschedule lines from delivery schedules (releases) to confirmations

Prerequisites

In the procurement scheduling agreement you must have a set a process for scheduling agreement processing that provides for the receipt of confirmations ( Process with Expected Confirmations (02) or Process with Confirmations in Exceptional Cases (03)).

Features

Enter Confirmation

When you enter confirmations, the system always creates a new confirmation.

This means that when you

Enter a new confirmation you assign a new confirmation number and enter the necessary data

Want to change an existing confirmation you enter the confirmation number of the last confirmation as well as the necessary data

In this case, more than one confirmation with the same confirmation number exists in the system.

Display the Data of the Last Confirmation

When you enter or change a confirmation you can use the data of the last confirmation as a template.

Choose ( Propose Last Confirmation) on the Confirmation or Confirmation Header tab page. You can change the displayed data and then save it.

In the display mode, the data from the last confirmation for the scheduling agreement item is always displayed.

In the change mode, this data is not visible; however you can display it by choosing Display Last Confirmation.

Copy Schedule Lines from Delivery Schedules

You can copy schedule lines from the operative delivery schedule and the forecast/planning delivery schedule to the confirmation.

When you copy release schedule lines to the confirmation, the following rules apply:

If you have only specified the operative delivery schedule, then the schedule lines that lie within the release horizon are copied.

If you have only specified the forecast/planning delivery schedule, then all the schedule lines in this delivery schedule are copied to the confirmation (the release horizon of the operative delivery schedule is not relevant).

If you specify an operative delivery schedule and a forecast/planning delivery schedule, then the schedule lines up to the release horizon are copied from the operative delivery schedule and the schedule lines that lie outside of the release horizon are copied from the forecast/planning delivery schedule.

To copy the schedule lines from the operative delivery schedule and the forecast/planning delivery schedule to the confirmation, choose ( Copy Release Schedule Lines ) on the Confirmation tab page.

Accessible Functions

You can access Release and Confirmation Processing as well as master data maintenance for the procurement relationship

To display release and confirmation processing, choose SA Releases .

To branch to master data maintenance, choose Environment → Procurement Relationship.

Activities

Choose Collaborative Procurement → Scheduling Agreement Releases → Enter Confirmations.