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  Creating Scheduling Agreement Confirmations

Prerequisites

You are on the Confirmations tab page in the release details.

Procedure

  1. Choose the schedule line for which you want to create a confirmation and choose Confirm .

    The system makes the confirmation-relevant fields ready for input. The system copies the request data from the schedule line into the fields for the confirmed quantity, the confirmed shipping date, and the confirmed delivery date. The Status field displays the confirmation status To Be Published .

  2. If you do not want to publish the confirmation when saving, you can change the status of the confirmation from To Be Published to To Be Saved as Draft by choosing Draft Conf.

  3. Change the confirmation data as required. For example, specify a different delivery date or – if you only want to deliver a partial quantity on a specific date – reduce the confirmed quantity. If you want to create a note-only confirmation, specify the quantity as zero.

  4. If you do not want to deliver on one date but want to divide the delivery over several dates, create more confirmations. To create more confirmations, choose Confirm for the schedule line again. The system inserts another row with default values for the confirmation data.

  5. Edit the confirmation data and, if necessary, change the status of this confirmation to To Be Saved as Draft with Draft Conf .

  6. To review all new and changed confirmations on the Confirmations tab page, choose Check . For each confirmation, SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) uses the validation profile that corresponds to the confirmation status with which the confirmation is to be saved later. If, for example, the confirmation is in To Be Published status, SAP SNC uses validation profile SCN1. If you have specified only the shipping date or only the delivery date, SAP SNC calculates the other date with the validation check SCONF_SCHEDULE.

  7. If you want to save the new and changed confirmations on the Confirmations tab page, select the confirmation and choose Save . SAP SNC proceeds as follows, depending on the confirmation status that the confirmation has at the moment of saving:

    • If the confirmation has the status To Be Saved as Draft , SAP SNC saves the confirmation but does not publish it. The confirmation receives the status Draft and is still changeable. With the Publish Conf. you can publish the confirmation at any time in the future.

    • If the confirmation has the status To Be Published , SAP SNC saves the confirmation and publishes it. The confirmation receives the status Published and can then be seen by the customer in SAP SNC. The supplier can no longer change the confirmation.

      SAP SNC performs a validation when the confirmation is saved. The validation when publishing is stricter than when saving as a draft.

For more information, see Processing Scheduling Agreement Confirmations .