Confirming and Cancelling Confirmations
Use
You use this function if you want to confirm the operations of the combined order.
Integration
If earlier operations in the original orders have not been confirmed, the system displays a warning or error message, depending on your Customizing settings.
You can only confirm the combined operations of the original orders from the combined order. If you try to confirm a combined operation from an original order, the system displays an error message.
Caution
Despite the message, you can confirm operations from the combined orders, though this may cause problems in the system.
If you cancel a confirmation for a combined order, the system also cancels the respective confirmations for the original orders.
Caution
You should always confirm and cancel original orders from the combined order.
Progress confirmation for production orders and collective entry: time ticket are not possible for combined orders.
Features
If you confirm the individual operations of the combined order, no changes are initially made to the original orders. Only when the last operation of the combined order has been confirmed is the quantity distributed to the original orders (see also: Quantities and Units of Measure in Confirmation ). The system proposes a distribution based on the order quantities. You can change the distribution ratio in the customer exit MILLOC01 (function module: EXIT_SAPLMILL_OC_002 ) or change it manually in a table. The system usually displays the table for manual apportionment. The whole of the confirmed quantity must be distributed to the original orders. You can confirm zero quantities in the combined orders and individual original orders. It is not possible to create stock for the combined order.
Note
If the fixed quantity indicator is set in the detail screen for the component (it is set automatically during combination), retrograde issues of the component are not proportional to quantity.
When you confirm the last operation of the combined order, the system updates the operations of the combined partial sequence in the original orders. This means that the confirmed quantity is updated in the operations of the respective original order and the status
Partially confirmed
or
Finally confirmed
is set.
When you finally confirm the last operation of the combined order, the settlement rules are defined for the original orders (see Order combination and Controlling ). If the distribution in the combined order has not yet been changed, the costs are distributed based on quantities to the original orders using the source structure. Equivalence numbers are used to create settlement rules. You can also change the way costs are distributed using customer exit MILLOC01 (function module: EXIT_SAPLMILL_OC_003 ) or you can change it manually in a table. As a rule, the system does not display the table for manual settlement.
The combined order is only relevant for the settlement after technical completion.