Receiving Confirmations (Customer)
Use
Within Collaborative Management of Delivery Schedules, your vendor uses confirmations to inform you whether he can fulfill the requirements that you have transmitted to him in scheduling agreement (SA) releases.
For confirmations that you receive from your vendor you can define whether a tolerance check should be carried out or under what circumstances an alert is generated.
The confirmation profiles delivered in the standard system control whether, upon receipt of a confirmation:
An alert is always generated (a tolerance check is therefore not necessary).
The current confirmation is compared with the last confirmation so that an alert is generated if there is a tolerance violation.
The current confirmation is compared with the operative delivery schedule so that an alert is generated if there is a tolerance violation.
An alert is generated if the result of the tolerance checks shows violations that exceed the accepted tolerances.
If you need other checks then you can use your own checking procedures without making any modifications.
Integration
In collaborative management of delivery schedules you can receive confirmationsfrom your vendors.
For more information, see Collaborative Management of Procurement and Sales Scheduling Agreements
Prerequisites
To work with confirmations you must define the process with confirmations for the relevant scheduling agreement item in the external procurement relationship.
If you only receive confirmations in exceptional cases, then you should use the confirmation profile (
SAP1 - Alert Always with Conf. Receipt
), so that an alert informs you of every unexpected incoming confirmation.
See also Prerequisites for the Procurement Scheduling Agreement
Features
Within inbound processing of confirmations:
The system determines the relevant scheduling agreement
The system does this based on the document number and the item. If either of these pieces of data is missing then additional data is retrieved. The system first uses the vendor material saved in the scheduling agreement in SAP R/3. If the system is unable to determine a scheduling agreement the product, vendor and customer location is retrieved.
If necessary, a tolerance check is carried out.
Tolerance check
If you want to carry out a tolerance check within confirmation receipt then you can make the following settings in the tolerance profile:
Define tolerances
Maintain percentage tolerances for up to three checking horizons. These tolerances define the amount that the quantities in the current confirmation can deviate from the quantities in either the last confirmation received or the operative delivery schedule.
Define an individual check
In the individual check, schedule deviations can be checked to the day or to the second.
In this way you can define a more to-the-second check for the near future and a more approximate, to-the-day check for the distant future.
Define a totals check
If you want to use the planning calendar for the totals check you can subdivide checking horizons into partial periods. A totals check is then carried out for each of partial period.
Schedule deviations are inadmissible in the individual check.
You can also define whether the tolerance check should be canceled as soon as the first inadmissible deviation occurs or whether all quantity and date pairs should be checked first (
Termination of Check
indicator).
The tolerance profile controls which changes to the quantity/date situation (scheduling situation) should no longer be tolerated, so that an alert is generated. You view these alerts in the
Alert Monitor with the description
Receive
Deviating
Confirmation
.
For more information, see
Alert Monitor for Procurement Scheduling Agreement
and the SAP Library:
Supply Chain Monitoring
under
Alert Monitor
.
Result
The process that you have defined for confirmations in the external procurement relationship determines at what time schedule lines are transmitted to the SAP R/3 System.
If you always receive confirmations then the schedule lines are only transferred when a confirmation is received.
If you never receive confirmations or only receive confirmations in exceptional cases then the schedule lines are transferred to the SAP R/3 System when release creation takes place in the SAP APO System.