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Procedure documentationRejecting Explicit Reservations

 

It can be useful to reject an explicit reservation in the following cases:

  • The business transaction that triggered the explicit reservation has not been executed, and you are certain that this business transaction is not going to be executed any more.

    In this case, an explicit reservation could block another business transaction that you want to execute.

  • You have already executed the business transaction that generated the explicit reservation. You are certain that utilization data changes are not going to be included in the explicit reservation.

    In this case, the explicit reservation should be fully utilized at all times. The deletion of the explicit reservation does not change the utilization of master contracts.

Note Note

Once the system time has reached the valid-to date and time of an explicit reservation, the system automatically invalidates the explicit reservation and no longer includes it in utilization calculation.

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Prerequisites

From the SAP Easy Access screen under Master Contract Management, then Start of the navigation path Facilities End of the navigation path, you have executed the Display Facility transaction. For more information about this function, see Displaying Master Contract Facilities.

Procedure

  1. You are either on the Display Hierarchy of a Master Contract and Its Utilization Amounts screen, or the Display Hierarchy of an Account and its Utilization screen.

    Depending on the layout setting, the system displays the Reject Reservation column.

    If the system does not display this column, use the Change Layout function to add this to the current layout.

  2. To reject the explicit reservation of an account in the master contract hierarchy, set the Reject Reservation indicator for this explicit reservation, and save the display.

  3. The system issues a message. In the message, confirm the rejection of the explicit reservation.

  4. The system removes the explicit reservation for the account. The system now no longer includes the explicit reservation when it calculates the subtotal of the account and the utilization of the corresponding master contract.

Caution Caution

Use this function with caution, and only after considering the possible consequences. If you have rejected an explicit reservation, the corresponding amount is no longer reserved in the facility. This means that other business transactions can now utilize the corresponding global limit.

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