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  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 Start of the navigation path Delivery Next navigation step Confirmation Control Next navigation step Set Confirmation Control End of the navigation path . You can also access this activity on the SAP Easy Access screen, under Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Delivery Next navigation step Supplier Confirmation Next navigation step Current Settings End of the navigation path .

Note Note

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.

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