Creating Notifications of Stock Allocation (SAP Library

Creating Notifications of Stock Allocation

Prerequisites

General Prerequisite

In an allocation table document, the Notification category indicator determines the type of notification that is to be created and as a result the message type (such as the request notification or a confirmation notification) for every article and site. The appropriate settings for the notification category must be made in Customizing so that communication is possible with the sites. The notifications can be transferred by EDI or print output. In both cases, message determination must be active for the notification category.

Prerequisites for Transfer by Print Output

Message determination: When you create condition records for message determination, you must enter the value "1" (print output) as the transmission medium. To do this, choose Environment ® Messages ® Condition records ® Create.

Prerequisites for Transfer by EDI

The standard system contains the following IDocs for transferring notification information by EDI.

WALNOT01 for outbound

WALREQ01 for inbound

To send notifications by EDI, you must bear the following points in mind:

Customizing settings: The partner profiles for the sites concerned must be maintained with partner type KU. In outbound processing, basic type WALNOT01 must be assigned to message type WALNOT in the outbound parameters. You do not need to enter message control for the outbound parameters. In inbound processing, transaction code WALR must be assigned to message type WALREQ in the inbound parameters.

Message determination: When you create condition records for message determination, you must enter the value "8" (special function) as the transmission medium. To do this, choose Environment ® Messages ® Condition records ® Create.

Choose Allocation table ® Communication site ® IDoc overview ® ... to display the IDocs sent (logical message type WALNOT) and received (logical message WALREQ). This provides you with the status records and segment data.

Procedure

For notifications to be created, single messages (so-called message records) are created for the sub-items in an allocation table, when the allocation table is posted.

With this transaction, single messages selected and those not yet processed are read and bundled together into their different types (such as into request notifications or confirmation notifications) as per the different sites and other criteria (transmission media, printer or promotion, for example). They are then printed as notifications or sent by EDI.

To generate notifications, proceed as follows:

On the Allocation Table: Message Bundling / Notification Creation Screen select the messages you want to transfer. You can limit your selection using the following criteria.

Message type: this is determined by the notification category in the allocation table. The message type defines the notifications you wish to create.
Site: You enter the sites for which notifications are to be created.
Transmission date: The system creates notifications whose transmission date is before or the same as the date entered.

Select the Display statistics indicator if you wish information to be displayed on the messages bundled and processed when you execute the program.

Choose Program ® Execute. A window appears informing you of the number of notifications issued. Choose ENTER . If you selected the Display statistics indicator on the initial screen, these now appear.