Update of the Work Order After Changes to the Purchase Order
Use
The customer can change a purchase order in the customer back-end system. When the customer sends the changed purchase order to SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), the system automatically updates the affected deliveries (transportation PIOs) in the work order. In addition, you can make settings so that the system also adjusts the phase inputs and phase outputs (PIOs) of the production phases to the changed or new deliveries.
The publication of the updated work order starts a new negotiation phase for the changed or new PIOs. The customer and the supplier must again agree on the plan PIOs that the supplier is to comply with.
Features
Update of Deliveries in the Work Order
In the case of a new purchase order schedule line, the system creates a new request delivery (request transportation PIO) each for the primary product and co-products.
The system handles the following purchase order changes in the same way as if the customer had manually processed the affected deliveries in the work order using the corresponding negotiation function:
The customer has changed the quantity or date/time of a purchase order schedule line.
The corresponding negotiation function is
Change Quantity and Date/Time
. The system executes this function for all primary product deliveries and co-product deliveries that belong to the changed purchase order schedule line.The customer has deleted a single purchase order schedule line or a purchase order item (and thus its associated purchase order schedule lines). The customer has canceled a purchase order item.
If a confirmation already exists for a delivery, the corresponding negotiation function is
Reject Confirmation
. If a confirmation does not yet exist, the corresponding negotiation function isCancel Request
. The system executes these functions for all primary product deliveries and co-product deliveries that belong to this purchase order schedule line.
As in the case of changes using a negotiation function, the system considers whether confirmations by the supplier already exist for the existing request schedule lines, and which status the request schedule lines and confirmations have (
INEG
or
IAGR
). For more information, see
Negotiation Functions
.
Update of the Production PIOs
In the standard system, the system updates only the deliveries in the work order following a change to the purchase order. However, the system does not adjust the associated production PIOs or create the required production PIOs for new deliveries. You can make settings so that the system automatically adjusts the production PIOs to the changed deliveries as well and creates production PIOs for new deliveries. For more information, see Adaptation of the Work Order .
Activities
If you have set the indicator in work order configuration for immediate publication, the system
publishes
the updated work order immediately. If you have not set the indicator, the system uses the corresponding action
Publish Changes
and the alert
Publish Work Order
to notify the customer that he or she still has to publish the changed work order. Only then can the supplier react to the changes.
Recommendation
If you have made settings in work order configuration for immediate publication, we recommend that you also make settings in work order configuration for automatic adjustment after changes to a purchase order. The system then adjusts the work order to changed or new deliveries before it publishes the work order. In this way, you avoid publishing inconsistent data.