Event-Driven Quantity Assignment (SCM-APO-ATP-EQA)

You can use Event-Driven Quantity Assignment (EDQA) to respond promptly to changes in product availability. You can assign quantities that are new or available again, for example, to backorders or you can assign quantities from orders with low priority to those with a higher priority.

Integration

The following table shows the functions of the EDQA that require other SAP components.

Function requested	Components required
Events Quantity Assignment to Order Due Lists and Reassignment of Order Confirmations	Order Due Lists (SCM-APO-ATP-ODL)
Event Deployment	Service Part Deployment (SCM-APO-SPP-SDE)
Quantity that was not used by the EDQA released for push deployment	Service Part Deployment (SCM-APO-SPP-SDE)

Features

Certain activities such as changing stock data trigger events as part of the EDQA process. These events execute a quantity assignment.

The following activities trigger events:

Changing the purchase order document
A quantity release in the sales order
Change stock data
Changing the sales document
Sales order confirmation
Changing the refurbishment order
Changing the planned order

These activities can trigger the following events:

Quantity Assignment to Order Due Lists
For more information, see EDQA Event: Quantity Assignment to Order Due Lists.
Reassignment of Order Confirmations
For more information, see EDQA Event: Reassignment of Order Confirmations.
Push Deployment
For more information, see EDQA Event: Push Deployment.
Backorder Processing
For more information, see EDQA Event: Backorder Processing.

Constraints

The same restrictions apply to the EDQA results as apply to Backorder Processing.