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  Confirmation Screen

Definition

A screen on the Web user interface (Web UI) of the SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) for displaying and processing the following supplier confirmations:

  • Scheduling agreement and purchase order confirmations in Extended Confirmation Management (ECM)

  • Location product confirmations

    Location product confirmations are only relevant for the shortage analysis of the Service Parts Planning of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). The confirmation screen is integrated in the Shortage Monitor. For more information, see the documentation for SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) under Start of the navigation path Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Analysis, Monitoring, and Reporting for Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Shortage Analysis End of the navigation path .

Use

Supplier and customer use the confirmation screen as follows:

  • The supplier processes confirmations in the supplier view.

  • If the supplier wants confirmations to be visible for the customer as well, the supplier publishes the confirmations.

  • The customer can display and review published confirmations in the customer view of the confirmation screen. The customer can set a review status for a confirmation to document the editing progress from the customer point of view. The following statuses are available:

    • Reviewed

    • On Hold

      These statuses allow a worklist to be used, i.e. the customer can select confirmations for the confirmation screen according to the review status.

      Note Note

      In Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration , you can define whether the customer can also create and publish confirmations in the customer view of the confirmation screen. You make this setting under Start of the navigation path Delivery Next navigation step Extended Confirmation Management (ECM) and Location Product Confirmations Next navigation step Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations End of the navigation path .

      End of the note.

For more information, see Processing SA and PO Confirmations on the Confirmation Screen and the SAP APO documentation under Start of the navigation path Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Analysis, Monitoring, and Reporting for Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Shortage Analysis Next navigation step Shortage Monitor Next navigation step Processing Location Product Confirmations End of the navigation path .

Structure

Location Product Confirmations Screen Area

This screen area displays location product confirmations. The confirmation screen only displays this screen area if you have made a setting in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration to determine that location product confirmations are allowed. You make this setting under Start of the navigation path Delivery Next navigation step Extended Confirmation Management (ECM) and Location Product Confirmations Next navigation step Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations End of the navigation path .

If there are no location product confirmations for the current selection criteria, this screen section is hidden.

PO/SA Confirmations and Multiple PO/SA Confirmations Screen Area

This screen area displays schedule lines and confirmations of purchase orders and scheduling agreements as follows:

  • The screen displays one row for one schedule line.

  • If the supplier has created only one confirmation for a schedule line, the schedule line row also displays the confirmation data (confirmed quantity, confirmed shipping date, and confirmed delivery date). The Request field shows that a confirmation request exists for a schedule line. The schedule line and the confirmation or confirmation request share a row.

  • The supplier can create one or more confirmations for a schedule line. Suppliers use several confirmations if they want to deliver on different dates. If the supplier has created several (partial) confirmations for a release schedule line, the screen area still only shows the schedule line row with the data from the first confirmation that is not completed. (Closed confirmations are confirmations with the status Completed , Sent , or Canceled .) The MultiC. indicator shows that several confirmations exist for the schedule line. To display these, choose Show All Confs . The system shows the Multiple PO/SA Confirmations screen area and displays all confirmations for the schedule line there.

The confirmation screen only displays the PO/SA Confirmations screen area if you have activated ECM in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration . You make this setting under Start of the navigation path Delivery Next navigation step Extended Confirmation Management (ECM) and Location Product Confirmations Next navigation step Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations End of the navigation path .

If there are no confirmations for the current selection criteria, this screen area is hidden.

Details

Under Details , you will find the following data for all selected confirmations:

  • The Partners and Locations tab page displays the numbers and descriptions of the business partners and the locations.

  • The References tab page displays data about documents to which a scheduling agreement confirmation or a purchase order confirmation refers, for example:

    • Data about the scheduling agreement release, such as scheduling agreement, item, and release number

    • Sending data for scheduling agreement confirmations that the supplier has sent to SAP APO

    • Data about the release that has closed a scheduling agreement confirmation.

    • Data about the purchase order

  • The Assigned ASNs tab page displays ASNs that the report has assigned to the confirmation to update the confirmations on the basis of ASNs.

Configuration of the Confirmation Screen Content

In Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration , you can define the following under Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations :

  • Whether the confirmation screen displays location product confirmations

  • How old a closed confirmation can be for the confirmation screen to display it

  • Whether the customer can create and change confirmations

  • Whether published confirmations are changeable

Selection Criterion Schedule Line Date

You can specify an interval for the schedule line date in the selection criteria of the confirmation screen. In doing so, you select the schedule lines and confirmations that you want the confirmation screen to display. You define what the date means (delivery date or shipping date) in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration . You make this setting under Start of the navigation path Delivery Next navigation step Extended Confirmation Management (ECM) and Location Product Confirmations Next navigation step Set Up ECM and Location Product Confirmations End of the navigation path .

Date/Time Entries on the Confirmation Screen

Shipping dates/times refer to the time zone of the ship-from location and delivery dates/times refer to the time zone of the ship-to location. Dates/times that do not refer to a location, such as the creation or change time of the confirmation, are displayed in the time zone of the user.