General Functions on the Confirmation Screen This section describes the functions that are available on the confirmation screen for processing all types of confirmations (scheduling agreement, purchase order, and location product confirmations).
The following functions are available:
Undo entries
If you want to get rid of the changes that you have made since calling the confirmation screen or since last saving, choose
Undo
. The system loads the data that was last saved.
Set To Be Saved As Draft status
When you create a confirmation it has the status
To Be Published
by default. If you save a purchase order with this status, the purchase order receives the status
Published
and can be seen by the customer. However, if you do not want to publish the confirmation when saving, you can change the status from
To Be Published
to
To Be Saved As Draft
by choosing
Draft Conf.
The receipts/requirements list does
not
display scheduling agreement and purchase order confirmations with the status
Draft
. For more information, see
Receipts and Requirements
.
Save confirmations on the confirmation screen
If you want to save new or changed confirmations on the confirmation screen, choose
Save
. The system saves all confirmations according to their status as follows: A confirmation with the status
To Be Saved As Draft
receives the status
Draft
, a confirmation with the status
To Be Published
received the status
Published
, and a confirmation with the status
To Be Canceled
receives the status
Canceled
.
Check confirmation
SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) automatically validates the new or changed confirmations when you save them. To call the validation directly, choose
Check
. SAP SNC validates all new and changed confirmations on the confirmation screen. For each confirmation, SAP SNC uses the validation profile that corresponds to the confirmation status with which the confirmation is later to be saved. If, for example, the confirmation has the status
To Be Published
, 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
. For more information, see
Validation of Supplier Confirmations
.
Cancel confirmation
If you want to cancel a confirmation, select the confirmation and choose
Cancel Conf.
The purchase order acquires the status
To Be Canceled
. When you save the confirmation, the system response depends on the status of the confirmation that you want to delete as follows:
If you cancel a confirmation in
Draft
status, SAP SNC deletes the confirmation.
If the confirmation has a different status, the system does not delete the confirmation. The confirmation receives the status
Canceled
and can no longer be changed.
SAP SNC does not display canceled scheduling agreement and purchase order confirmations in the receipts/requirements list.
Publish confirmation
You use the
Publish Conf.
function for a confirmation that you have already saved as a draft and that you now want to publish. The function can therefore only be used for confirmations with the status
Draft
and not for confirmations with the status
To Be Published
. The function sets the status of the confirmation to
To Be Published
. When you next save, the confirmation receives the status
Published
.