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Function documentationPublication of Work Orders

 

As long as a business partner is processing phase inputs and phase outputs (PIOs) in a work order, these PIOs have the status Draft (INEG&DRFT for In Negotiation and Draft). The other business partner can see the PIOs in the draft status. However, he or she can only react to a proposal with a negotiation action after the business partner has published his or her proposal, in other words, when the PIOs are no longer in Draft status. A business partner must therefore publish the work order if he or she wants the other business partner to react to their proposals. The system uses the Publish Changes action to notify the business partner that he or she still has to publish the changes that are relevant to the negotiations.

The publication is only relevant for the negotiation-relevant data, the PIOs. You do not have to publish notes, parameters, attachments, or actual data. Both business partners can process this data immediately after it is saved.

Features

Publication Options

The following options are available for publishing a work order:

  • Automatic publication after creation of the work order or after a purchase order change

    The system can automatically publish a newly-created work order immediately. When the customer has changed a purchase order in the back-end system and has sent it to SAP SNC, the system also updates the work orders that were created from this purchase order. The system can publish updated work orders immediately. For immediate publication after creation of a work order and after a purchase order change, make the required settings in work order configuration. For more information, see Update of the Work Order After Changes to the Purchase Order.

  • Publication with a report

    The customer can also use the Publish Work Orders (/SCA/WO_PUBLISH) report in the SAP SNC system to publish reports.

  • Manual publication on the Web UI

    The business partner that processed the work order and made new proposals can publish the work order manually on the Web UI. In particular, a customer can publish a newly-created work order on the Web UI that the system did not publish automatically after the work orders' creation or which the customer did not publish using the report.

Publication of a Work Order in the Negotiation Phase (CINE)

During negotiation of a work order between the customer and supplier, the work order has the status CINE (Content in Negotiation). When a business partner publishes a work order having the status CINE, this has the following consequences:

  • The PIOs lose their draft status. They only keep their negotiation status.

  • The system creates the action and the alert Respond to Proposal for the other business partner. The system can use alert notification to inform the other business partner about the work order that is to be negotiated.

  • If, at the time of publication of the new work order, the supplier cannot deliver on time because the delivery date/time is too close in the future, the system also creates corresponding alerts and actions for the customer and supplier.

  • If the suppler publishes the work order and the quantity and date/time of the confirmation PIOs match the request PIOs within customer-defined quantity tolerances and date/time tolerances, SAP SNC automatically accepts the confirmation data (PIO type Agreed Confirmation, status IAGR for In Agreement) and cancels the request PIOs (PIO type Canceled Request, status CNCL for Canceled). For more information, see Automatic Approval.

Publication of an Agreed Work Order (CIAG)

When the customer and supplier have reached an agreement for a work order, the work order receives the status CIAG (Content in Agreement). When a business partner publishes a work order having the status CIAG, this has the following consequences:

  • The system creates the alert and the action Provide Actual Data that is directed to the supplier.

  • The system updates the purchase order according to the data that the customer and supplier have agreed upon in the work order, as follows:

    • The system copies the delivery data (dates and quantities) as identical request schedule lines and confirmation schedule lines to the purchase order item. The confirmation schedule lines receive the status Accepted.

    • When the work order has been created for a subcontract order and has copied subcontracting components or co-products from the subcontract order, the system also updates the component consumptions in the request schedule lines and confirmation schedule lines to the purchase order item. The component consumptions in the confirmation schedule lines receive the status Accepted.

    SAP SNC then uses a ReplenismentOrderNotification to send the updated purchase order to the customer back-end system, so that the purchase order is updated in the customer back-end system as well.

Sending of XML Messages

When the customer publishes a work order, the system automatically sends the XML message ManufacturingWorkOrderRequest to the supplier back-end system. The system can also send XML messages to the customer back-end system upon agreement and during the execution phase. For more information, see Update of the Customer Back-End with Work Order Data.

Activities

For online processing, you can call the publication report on the SAP Easy Access screen, by choosing Supply Start of the navigation path Network Collaboration Next navigation step Work Order Next navigation step Publish Work Orders End of the navigation path.