Confirmation Control 

Use

In SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), you can specify whether a supplier in SAP SNC can create supplier confirmations (purchase order confirmations or scheduling agreement confirmations) or advanced shipping notifications (ASNs) for purchase order items in purchase order collaboration or for scheduling agreement releases. The setting depends on the following characteristics:

●      Customer

●      Supplier

●      Customer location

●      Ship-from location

●      Product

ASNs or supplier confirmations can be mandatory, optional (default setting), or forbidden for a certain characteristics combination. Depending on your settings in confirmation control, SAP SNC either permits the creation of ASNs or supplier confirmations (obligatory or optional) or does not (forbidden).

Features

When customers send purchase orders or releases to SAP SNC from their back-end system, SAP SNC reads the settings in confirmation control and uses these for the purchase order item or release.

If customers change the purchase orders in their back-end system and send the changed purchase orders to SAP SNC, SAP SNC then reads the settings for the purchase order items in confirmation control once again if the following data has changed:

●      Ship-from location

●      Customer location

●      Product

Activities

You configure confirmation control in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Delivery ® Confirmation Control ® Set Confirmation Control. You can also access this activity on the SAP Easy Access screen, under Supply Network Collaboration ® Delivery ® Supplier Confirmation ® Current Settings.

Confirmation control also exists for purchase orders in an SAP back-end system. However, IDocs cannot transfer the settings for confirmation control. You must therefore ensure that you maintain settings in the SAP back-end system and in SAP SNC consistently.