Reassignment of Order Confirmations 

Use

Reassignment of order confirmation (ROC) allows you to reassign confirmed quantities of items with low priority to items with high priority.

Integration

Reassignment of order confirmations takes place in SAP APO and is part of Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP). It uses rules-based availability check (RBA) and the condition technique.

Prerequisites

In addition to CRM Enterprise, the following minimum system requirements apply:

·        SAP SCM 5.0

·        SAP ECC 6.0

The system configuration for service parts management is active. For further information, see the IMG for Customer Relationship Management under Transactions ® Basic Settings ®Activate System Configuration for Service Parts Management.

You have set up this function in SAP SCM. For further information on prerequisites in SAP SCM and features, see the SAP Library for SAP Supply Chain Management under SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization ® Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) ® Event-Driven Quantity Assignment ® Reassignment of Order Confirmations.

Features

When you create a sales order, the availability check in SAP APO may be unable to confirm a sales order item for the requested delivery date. If this sales order has high priority, you can use reassignment of order confirmations to reassign the confirmed quantities of items with low priority to items with high priority. This may help you to increase confirmed quantities and fulfill particular sales order items. The order confirmations are reassigned by SAP APO.

Activities

There are two ways of starting reassignment of order confirmations:

·        Without using the Reassign Confirmations indicator
You can freely define the conditions under which the system starts reassignment of order confirmations irrespective of whether this indicator is set or not. You define these conditions in Customizing for rules-based ATP in SAP SCM (component SAP APO).

·        Using the Reassign Confirmations indicator
The indicator Reassign Confirmations is found at header level in the sales order in SAP CRM. If you want the system to start ROC for a sales order if this indicator is set, you need to set up Customizing in SAP SCM under Advanced Planning and Optimization ®Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) ®Rules-based Availability Checkas follows:

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                            a.      In the IMG activity Define Condition Table under Maintain Field Catalog (Usage "0"), you have to create a condition field named FORCE_ROC. This condition field must be used in a condition table.

                            b.      You then must customize rules-based ATP in such a way that when SAP APO performs the RBA using the field FORCE_ROC, it finds a rule in which the indicator Activate Reassignment of Order Confirmations is set.

For detailed information on rules-based availability check, see Rules-Based Availability Check as well as the SAP Library for SAP Supply Chain Management under SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization ® Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) ® Advanced Availability Check Methods ® Rules-Based ATP.

When SAP APO has carried out the availability check and returned the results to SAP CRM, you cannot tell in SAP CRM whether ROC has taken place or not. You can check whether ROC has taken place by displaying the results of the availability check.