Carry Out Optional Reporting Point Confirmation 
Prerequisites
You have set optional reporting point confirmation in Customizing.
Procedure
On the initial screen for confirmation, select the Reporting Point Confirmation indicator.
In the adjacent field, enter the reporting point for which you want to carry out the confirmation. If you do not enter a reporting point and post, the system lists all the existing reporting points. Select a reporting point.
If you want to confirm assembly scrap at a reporting point, choose Scrap .
With the optional reporting point confirmation, you can confirm assembly scrap up to a reporting point. The system then posts the yields (good quantities) retrospectively for all previous reporting points.
In the assembly confirmation, you can also confirm component scrap at the reporting point. The system then posts the specified quantity not as assembly scrap but as excess component consumption. The system also posts the production activities for the fitting/assembly of the components. You select this indicator if the components needed to produce the assembly in the current workstep have been damaged.
You now have various options:
Choose Post with Correction to correct the component data or the actual data. ( See also Posting with Correction of Components and Posting with Correction of Activities .)
Choose Details to change certain settings. You can set various indicators, depending on whether you want to post ordering costs (lot-size-independent costs) or post the goods receipt to another stock type.
Choose Save to make the posting.
Result
The reporting point confirmation generates a document log with the following individual documents:
Reporting point document for the successfully executed goods issue postings for the components.
Activity document(s).
If necessary, postprocessing documents for unsuccessful goods issue postings.
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Final Confirmation
In the simplest form of confirmation with optional reporting points, no quantities are confirmed at the reporting points and you post a goods receipt manually. This case corresponds to a confirmation without reporting points.
You get a confirmation document and a material document.
Note
The graphical representation shows the process over time and not the "actual" state. The following graphic describes how in the case of a goods receipt = 1 a piece passes all existing reporting points in sequence over time.
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Scrap Confirmation up to Reporting Point:
Scrap up to a reporting point corresponds to scrap incurred at the end of a confirmed reporting point operation. The yields (good quantities) and the component backflushes are posted/carried out retrospectively at all previous reporting points.
In this example, scrap of one pc is posted up to reporting point 30.
You get a confirmation document, a material document for all components, a scrap document, and a yield (good quantity) document for the reporting point.
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WIP Posting at End of a Period
The WIP posting is a stocktake of the materials lying at the reporting points on the line. It is carried out primarily for Controlling, which calculates valuated stock. The entry of the reporting point quantities for the WIP is carried out analogically to mandatory reporting point confirmation.
During the stocktake at the end of a period (physical inventory), all existing materials on the line - i.e. all materials between the reporting points - are counted. The reporting point quantities in the SAP system, on the other hand, correspond to all quantities of materials that have passed a reporting point.
This view is generated at the time of a WIP posting in the system: In the example, this time the "actual" state, i.e. current stock on the line, is shown. At reporting pont 30, there are two pc on the line. Two pc are subsequently posted in the following step at all reporting points. Three pc have passed reporting point 20, so that three pc can be subsequently posted for the two reporting points 10 and 20. One pc lies at reporting point 10 on the line and is subsequently posted there.
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Posting After Period Closing:
At the start of the new period, the reporting pont quantities must be equal to 0 again so that the starting situation is reestablished and further goods receipts can be posted. The goods issue document is displayed. The two completed materials are deducted from the reporting point quantities. A quantity of 4 is subsequently posted at reporting point 30, and a quantity of 1 at reporting point 20. With the next goods receipt of four materials, the reporting point quantities are reduced to 0.
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