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Use

For the entry of confirmations, short response times and the high-performance processing of large volumes of data are important. By decoupling confirmation processes, you can significantly improve performance, because the overall process of entering "actual" data is divided into subprocesses that are critical to performance and ones that are performance- un critical.

Usually, the following confirmation processes are automatically linked with the process of entering "actual" data:

  • Posting goods receipts

  • Backflushing of material components

  • Calculation of actual costs within the framework of posting production activities

  • Reduction of planned production quantities (planned independent requirements)

  • Adjustment of dependent requirements of components in reporting point confirmation

  • Reduction of capacity requirement

  • Adjustment of Logistics Information System

However, you can decouple the performance-critical confirmation processes "posting of goods issues" and "posting of production activities". This means that these processes are not posted simultaneously with the goods receipt confirmation. Instead they are collected in a worklist and processed later in the background.

Prerequisites

  • You have maintained the following steps in the section Decoupling of Confirmation in Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing:

    • Define Confirmation Processes

      In this step, you define the process control profile. This profile is used to control whether the backflushing of the components and/or production activities is to be carried out on an aggregated basis and when these confirmation processes are to be handled by the system (in dialog, in update program, or in the background).

    • Define Times/Parallelization for Confirmation Processes

      In this step, you determine the server groups/work processes (sessions) to be used for processing the confirmation processes.

      For this, you must first define RFC groups in Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing, (under   Entry of Actual Data   Decoupling of Confirmation   Define RFC Group).  

    • If you selected background processing as the processing time-spot, you also have to define the parameters for the background processing in the IMG activity Define Job for Confirmation Processes.

  • You have assign the process control profile to the repetitive manufacturing profile you use to control the materials for which the confirmation processes are to be decoupled.

  • In the case of make-to-order production, you have created a product cost collector and set the indicator for valuated individual customer stock in the requirement class.

Features

The decoupling of confirmation processes is possible for:

  • Goods receipt confirmation for stock material

  • Reporting point confirmation for stock material

  • Goods receipt confirmation for make-to-order (with account assignment to product cost collector)

  • Activity confirmation for stock material

The decoupling of the confirmation processes is carried out for all materials controlled via a repetitive manufacturing profile that contains a process control profile. This means that at the time of the goods receipt confirmation, the system posts just the goods receipt and reduces capacities. All other functions are flagged for processing in a worklist depending on the settings in the process control profile.

With every reporting point confirmation, the withdrawal and activity postings are flagged for subsequent processing.

If you have not set aggregation in the process control profile, the decoupled processes are carried out individually later at a time of your choice.

If you have set aggregation for backflushing and for the production activity postings, the system proceeds as follows:

  • Confirmation process goods issue posting:

    The BOM explosion is carried out for the selected materials and thereby the components determined.

    • Without reference to the planned order, the goods receipt quantities are cumulated according to the selection criteria for the collective confirmation and the BOMs exploded for the cumulated quantity per material.

    • With reference to the planned order, the BOM explosion takes place per planned order.

      The goods issue postings are made. The postings for identical components are made on an aggregated basis.

  • Confirmation process production activities:

    • The goods receipt quantities are aggregated. The production activities are calculated in proportion to this total quantity. The system bases this calculation on the routing used for the cost estimate.

    • It is not possible to use a standard cost estimate for a configurable material.

    Note Note

    The decoupling of the confirmation processes can be carried out both for make-to-stock materials as well as make-to-order materials. However, the process with make-to-order materials is only possible if the costs for the material are not assigned to the sales order account but to a product cost collector. You can create this product cost collector from the main repetitive manufacturing menu.

    For more information on the cost collector for make-to-order materials, refer to the SAP Documentation, CO Cost Object Controlling .

    End of the note.

Two functions are available for the retrospective processing of the subprocesses defined in the process control profile:

  • A dialog transaction to start the report.

  • A background job (Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing).

In the case of the decoupled confirmation, too, you can reverse the goods receipt as long as the goods issues have not yet been subsequently posted. However, goods receipts cannot be reversed if the goods issue has already been confirmed.

Activities

To trigger the subsequent posting of the backflushing processes defined in the process control profile, proceed as follows:

Dialog Transaction

  1. Starting from the Repetitive Manufacturing menu, choose   Data Entry   Decoupled Confirmation.  

    The Decoupled Confirmation screen appears.

  2. In the Production Type Selection part of the screen, select the relevant production type.

  3. In the Confirmation Processes to be Carried Out part of the screen, select the desired process.

  4. In the Selection Data part of the screen, restrict the selection of the materials.

  5. To monitor progress online and to trigger parallel processing, choose Settings and make the desired selections.

    If you choose Visualize Processes and then Execute , a dialog box appears, in which you can check the processing.

    If you choose Parallelize Processes , the system works through the various processes on several servers/work processes in parallel according to your settings in Customizing ( Define Times/Parallel Processing for Confirmation Processes ).

  6. Choose Execute .

    The system processes the data.

Background Processing

If you want to process the data in background mode, proceed as follows:

  1. Create a variant of the report.

  2. Define the parameters for background processing in Customizing ( Define Job for Confirmation Processes) .