Confirmation for the Manufacturing Order 

Use

The confirmation takes place in SAP R/3. It documents the status of the processing of operations and suboperations. In the SAP system, a distinction is made between partial confirmation and final confirmation.

Confirmations for manufacturing orders are entered in SAP R/3 and sent automatically to SAP APO via the CIF.

Prerequisites

See Prerequisites for the Production Process

Features

Confirmations in SAP R/3 have the following effects on the order in SAP APO:

·        The actual dates entered are copied to the dates of the operation in SAP APO.

Double-clicking on an operation of a manufacturing order in SAP APO displays the start of remaining processing as the start date: as a rule, this time corresponds to the end date/time currently reported in SAP R/3.

·        Rescheduling of phases (for process orders) that belong to the same operation as the current confirmed phase

·        No rescheduling of other operations

This applies to both production orders and process orders.

·        Reduction of affected operation quantities if quantities have been confirmed

Adjustment of the duration of remaining processing, as a rule on the basis of the remaining operation quantity (see SAP Note 515913 – Adjusting Operation Dates During Confirmation)

You can also carry out an activity-based confirmation or an adjustment of the remaining duration. For more information, see the SAP Note 626757 – Incorrect Remaining Durations on Setup Activities.

The adjustment is carried out as follows:

§         In SAP APO 3.1, dependent on the settings in the product master or in PP/DS Customizing

As a rule, we recommend the linear adjustment.

§         As of SAP APO 3.1 we recommend that you always use linear adjustment

·        During integration of manufacturing orders the dates determined in SAP APO are copied to the planned dates of the APO-relevant operations in SAP R/3. This always occurs if the order is sent from SAP APO to SAP R/3. For operations that have already been confirmed this may be undesirable.

·        Because SAP APO first copies the actual dates from SAP R/3 and then copies then to the scheduled dates of the R/3 operation when the data is sent from SAP APO back to SAP R/3 the original R/3 planned dates are lost.

·        For confirmed operations it may be undesirable for SAP APO to send its dates - which then correspond to the actual dates from SAP R/3 - back to the planned dates of the operation in SAP R/3. You can use the SAP Note 492772 – Date Transfer in Confirmed Operations Not Wanted, to control the date transfer of confirmed operations. In this Note you can find example coding for the enhancement PPAPO007.

 

Confirmations in SAP R/3 do not result in the following actions:

·        Reduction in component quantities

Component quantities are only reduced as a result of goods withdrawals. (An exception is quantity propagation in SAP R/3).

·        Reduction in the order quantity

This quantity is only reduced as a result of a goods receipt of the material produced. (The only exception is a short or excess receipt entered by final confirmation).

·        Deletion of the order in SAP APO

The final confirmation of an order in SAP R/3 does not cause the order to be deleted in SAP APO. The order is only deleted in SAP APO when it has been (technically) completed or deleted (deletion flag, deletion indicator) in SAP R/3.

See SAP Note 427264 – Confirmed and Fully Delivered Orders Remain in SAP APO.

Effects of the Confirmation in SAP R/3 on the Order in SAP APO

As of SAP APO 3.1, quantity propagation no longer takes place in the APO system. Instead there are two ways you can carry out quantity propagation in the R/3 system:

·        As of SAP R/3 Release 4.6C and above, you can trigger a quantity propagation in SAP R/3. This is activated in the production scheduling profile.

·        As of SAP R/3 Release 4.0B a quantity propagation is made available via the Plug-In (as of Plug-In 2001.2). This is activated using the enhancement transaction for the production scheduling profile (CFO1). The transaction CFO1 is only available for production orders, not for process orders (PP-PI). Therefore, you can only use the Plug-In propagation for production orders.

SAP recommends that you use the Plug-In quantity propagation. This is completely integrated as of SAP APO 3.1.

Quantity adjustment after confirmation

In SAP R/3 Customizing under Integration with Other SAP Components choose Advanced Planning and Optimization → Application-Specific Settings and Enhancements → Settings and Enhancements for In-House Production → Outbound Processing of Manufacturing Orders → Set Quantity Adjustment After Confirmation.

For the production scheduling profile, define how the system should behave when confirmations are created for production orders.  You can define the following:

·        Quantity adjustment after confirmation

·        Rescheduling after quantity adjustment

 

A production order with the status Finally Confirmed is not visible in the APO capacity view.

See SAP Note 427264 – Confirmed and Fully Delivered Orders Remain in SAP APO.

Interruption of Partially Confirmed Operations

Partially confirmed operations can be interrupted in the APO planning table and the portion that has already been confirmed disappears.

The portion that has not yet been confirmed can then be moved again and has the APO status Interrupted. This status is not integrated into SAP R/3: the process has nothing to do with the R/3 time event confirmation "Interrupt".

Constraints

The following constraints apply to the confirmation:

·        The cancellation of confirmations cancels only quantities and status, not dates. (Up to SAP APO 3.0 the status is only cancelled with constraints.)

·        Date adjustments after confirmations

See SAP Note 515913 – Adjusting Operation Dates During Confirmation