Assigning PO Confirmations to PO Schedule Lines (EDI) 

Use

In extended confirmation management (ECM), one confirmation must be assigned to exactly one request schedule line. There is no such assignment in a purchase order from purchase order collaboration. Here one confirmation is assigned to one item. If the supplier sends a purchase order with purchase order confirmations to SAP SNC, SAP SNC thus assigns each confirmation schedule line to exactly one purchase order schedule line when the purchase order confirmation arrives.

Features

Assignment Interval

In the Customizing settings for Supply Network Collaboration under Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations, you define how late or how early a confirmation schedule line has to be for SAP SNC to assign it to a purchase order schedule line. If SAP SNC cannot assign all confirmation schedule lines to purchase order schedule lines according to this, SAP SNC can violate the assignment interval.

Assignment for Changed Confirmations or Purchase Orders

If the supplier sends a purchase order with changed confirmation schedule lines to SAP SNC, an existing relationship between a confirmation schedule line and a purchase order schedule line remains unchanged even if the situation has changed due to additional or now missing confirmation schedule lines. Exception: The supplier has deleted the confirmation schedule line.

Even if the customer has created a purchase order in his or her back-end system and sent the changed purchase order to SAP SNC, SAP SNC receives the assignment for unchanged purchase order and confirmation schedule lines.