Status of Supplier Confirmations

This section contains information about the possible status of the following supplier confirmations:

Scheduling agreement confirmations
Purchase order confirmations in Extended Confirmation Management (ECM)
Location product confirmations

Note
Location product confirmations are only relevant for the Service Parts Planning shortage analysis in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). For more information, see SAP Library for SAP APO under Service Parts Planning Analysis, Monitoring, and Reporting for Service Parts Planning Shortage Analysis Shortage Monitor Processing Location Product Confirmations .

End of the note.

Normal Confirmations

The following table contains the status of normal scheduling agreement confirmations, purchase order confirmations, and location product confirmations:

Status	Description
Draft	Until now, the supplier has only saved the confirmation as a draft, in other words, it has not yet been published. The customer cannot see the confirmation.
Published	The supplier has closed the confirmation in SAP SNC. The customer can see the confirmation in the receipts/requirements list. A confirmation can acquire this status as follows: The supplier has created the confirmation schedule line manually and has published it (on the Confirmations tab page in the release details or on the confirmation screen of ECM). The supplier has sent a purchase order confirmation by EDI to SAP SNC from his or her back-end system.
Partially Shipped	This status is only relevant for ECM. ASNs are assigned to the published confirmation in SAP SNC. The assigned ASN quantity only partially covers the confirmed quantity. For more information, see Update Confirmations Based on ASNs .
Shipped	This status is only relevant for ECM. ASNs are assigned to the published confirmation in SAP SNC. The ASN quantity covers the confirmed quantity completely.
Closed	The confirmation or confirmation request is no longer up-to-date. If necessary, the supplier must create a new confirmation. If the conditions are met, SAP SNC automatically generates a new confirmation request. For more information, see Update of Supplier Confirmations and Generation and Update of Confirmation Requests . Closing Scheduling Agreement Confirmations Based on Releases .
Canceled	The supplier has canceled the confirmation manually.
Request	This status is only relevant for ECM with confirmation requests. The status shows that SAP SNC has generated a confirmation request for the release schedule line or purchase order schedule line. Suppliers see this status if they have not yet entered confirmation data (confirmed quantities and dates/times) in the confirmation request or have not yet saved the confirmation data. Once the supplier has entered confirmation data, the confirmation request becomes a confirmation. The customer sees this status if the supplier has not yet published confirmation data.
Closed Request	SAP SNC has closed the confirmation request that is in the meantime obsolete, and replaced it with a new confirmation request. You can recognize an obsolete and closed confirmation request since it contains no confirmation data.

Note Note

We use the superordinate term Completed for the following statuses:

Canceled
Shipped
Closed

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Status of Note-Only Confirmations

The following table contains the status of note-only confirmations (possible for scheduling agreement confirmations and location product confirmations):

Status	Description
Draft Note	Until now, the supplier has only saved the note-only confirmation as a draft, in other words, it has not yet been published. The customer cannot see the note-only confirmation.
Published Note	The supplier has published the note-only confirmation. The customer can see it in the receipts/requirements list.
Closed Note	SAP SNC has closed the note-only confirmation, for example upon receipt of a new release or – in EWM – upon the update of confirmations based on ASNs (see Update Confirmations Based on ASNs ).

For more information, see Note-Only Confirmation .