Sending Changed Purchase Orders

Purchase order collaboration in SAP SNC does not support change transfer. Therefore, the customer must always send the complete purchase order to SAP SNC.

Processing Confirmations by the Supplier

When SAP SNC receives a changed purchase order, the purchase order acquires the Updated by Customer distribution status and can be changed by the supplier. The supplier can therefore create new confirmation schedule lines or update the existing confirmation schedule lines.

Generating Alerts and Updating the Change Status

In the standard configuration, the system generates an alert of type 7051 or 7052 for new and changed PO items. The system also sets the change status of the item to New or Changed. There is a change status at header level as well that refers to new or changed items. If a purchase order contains new as well as changed items, the status has the value Changed.

For the system to generate create this alert or determine the change status, the PO_NEW_CHG_ALERT_CTRL validation check must be active. This validation check is active in the default system.

Alert-Relevant and Status-Relevant Changes

The system regards an item as changed in the following instances only:

Only these changes can affect the change status or cause alerts to be generated.

Granularity of Alerts for Changed Items

For each relevant change (see above), the system creates an alert of alert type 7052 (for example, an alert for a quantity change and an alert for a price change). The alert text indicates what has changed (for example, the quantity or the price).

Updating the Confirmation Status for a Quantity Change

If a customer increases the purchase order quantity of an item in such a way that the confirmed quantity of the item is below the underdelivery tolerance, SAP SNC sets the confirmation status of the item to Partially Confirmed.

Updating the Confirmation Status for Other Changes

In the standard system, the system sets the confirmation status of an item to Not Confirmed if the customer has changed the following confirmation-relevant item data:

If you want to use this function, the PO_CONF_RELEVANCE_CTRL validation check must be active. The validation check is active in the standard system.

Deleting Confirmation Schedule Lines

You can make a setting so that SAP SNC deletes the confirmation schedule lines for the item in the case of confirmation-relevant changes to the item (for example, a quantity increase that is too large, or a new requested delivery date/time). SAP SNC deletes the confirmation schedule lines upon receipt of the changed purchase order. The supplier must therefore create new confirmation schedule lines and confirm the confirmation-relevant changes. If you want to use this function, the PO_CONFIRMATION_DELETE validation check must be active. The validation check is not active in the standard system.