The Copying of a Value-Added Service Proposal to Items 
The Copying of a Value-Added Service Proposal to Items
Use
This function makes it easier to quickly apply changes or additions to already existing value-added services, especially in large orders. You enter a VAS proposal at the order header level and copy its characteristics, that is the value-added service data it contains, to all or selected order items.
Features
To allow you to control the copying process in a way that is most convenient for you, the system offers some VAS-relevant copy parameters.
You can even influence the copying process by the timing you choose to enter the VAS proposal in the order. This may decide whether the system should assign the proposal to all or just part of the order items and when they should be assigned.
Once you have copied the VAS proposal to the items, you can only remove the data again item by item via the path Go to ® Overview ®
If you remove the value-added service data from the proposal directly, you only remove its validity at the header level. The data remains at the item level and is still valid for the items to which you had copied the data from the VAS proposal.
If you assign a VAS proposal to an order item, you always copy the complete proposal to that item and to all of its schedule lines. It is not possible to select only parts of the proposal, such as copying the labeling data to one item and the packing data to another.
You can only ever copy a proposal to items and in so doing, make it valid for all the schedule lines that exist per item.
Settings in the copy parameters and their effect on copying a VAS proposal to items
Independent of the copy parameter settings, when copying a VAS proposal, the system adds the data you defined in the proposal to any existing value-added services in the item, regardless of their origin.
However, if the item contains a value-added service of the same type as that in the proposal, the copy parameter settings allow you to control which of the two should apply.
Copy proposal
This is the default setting in AFS for copying a VAS proposal. Here the copying of the VAS data occurs in the background. Any VAS data existing in the item from condition records or entered manually remains there. The system adds the VAS data from the proposal to the existing data, even if this results in multiple value-added services of the same category, such as different ticketing types.
If the value-added service is of the same category and is defined by the same VAS type, then the value-added service in the item is replaced by that in the proposal.
If the item already has a certain ticketing/labeling type T01, for example, and the proposal contains one of type L01, then both are valid for that item after you copy the proposal to the item.
If the item already has a certain packing type VP1 with a charge code 001, for example, and the proposal contains a packing type VP1 with a charge code 003, then the system replaces the original packing type VP1 with the packing type VP1 of the proposal.
Confirm proposal
Here the copying of the VAS data usually also occurs in the background. Under certain conditions, however, it can occur in the dialog mode.
The system copies all VAS proposals in the background if the item does not contain entries of the same VAS type as in the proposal.
However, if the item and the proposal contain VAS data of the same type, the copying of the VAS data is done in the dialog. Here you can decide which of the two should be valid.
Ignore proposal
Here the copying of the VAS data occurs in the background, the same as for the setting Copy proposal.
If the item contains VAS data of the same type as the proposal, the system does not copy the proposal.
Usage of different copy parameters
A bulk buyer buys different models of casual shoes for distribution to other department store chains. Normally this customer wants you to pack the shoes in plain white boxes. You have specified this in your conditions.
Now your customer wants to find out whether the shoes would sell better in a flashier box and asks you to pack them in red boxes for just one order.
To avoid changing the packing VAS in each item, you can just create a VAS proposal of the same type as you defined in the condition for white boxes. In the proposal you can specify, either with a mix indicator or a text, that this time red boxes are to be used. If you selected Confirm proposal, the system will ask you for each item whether to replace the VAS data from the condition with that of the proposal. You then merely need to confirm that. With the copy parameter Copy proposal, the system automatically replaces the packing instruction in the items with that of the proposal.
Timing of the VAS proposal entry and its effects on copying the characteristics to items
You can influence when the system assigns a VAS proposal data to which items, by the timing of your entering the VAS proposal.
You control this with differing settings of the VAS-relevant copy parameters, as described above.
Entering the VAS proposal at the beginning of order entry
If you want your VAS proposal to be valid for all order items, you enter it in the order before creating the items. The system then automatically copies the VAS data of the proposal to each item you enter.
Entering the VAS proposal during the order entry
If you already know beforehand that your customer wants the same value-added services for one part of the order items, but has not requested any for the others, you can first enter the latter and then create a VAS proposal with the VAS data for the remaining items. The system will only copy the proposal to those items that you enter after creating the proposal. The proposal is not valid for the items entered at the beginning.
Entering the VAS proposal during at the end of the order entry
If you yourself want to control when and to which items the VAS data should be copied, you enter the VAS proposal after creating the order. In this case nothing the system will not copy anything automatically, but rather you manually initiate this for selected items via the function Copy proposals to items.