Supplier's Home Screen

The Home screen is the screen that you, as a supplier, encounter when you log on to SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), user interface (UI) add-on for purchase order collaboration. The Home screen informs you about your tasks with regard to the purchase order collaboration process.

The Home screen gives you an overview over tasks that you need to perform, such as confirming purchase orders, and creating ASNs. From the Home screen, you can navigate to the worklists where you can accomplish your tasks.

The Home screen consists of three charts; each focusing on a task type:

Purchase order items to confirm
Items due for ASN creation
Overview of ASNs by status

Moreover, you can create and change selections on the Home screen, and you can use predefined links to navigate to worklists that contain items of particular importance.

Prerequisites

To have a meaningful grouping of purchase order items based on the time left until confirmation, the customer must make the necessary settings in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Start of the navigation path SAP SNC, UI Add-On for Purchase Order Collaboration Next navigation step Confirmation Define Time Available to Confirm PO Items End of the navigation path .

Features

Purchase Order Items to Confirm Chart

You, as a supplier, regularly confirm purchase order items that you receive from the customer. This chart visualizes a grouping of the purchase order items by the time left until they should be confirmed and by their collaboration status, so that you can see which confirmations are the most urgent ones.

Note Note

In case the customer has not made the settings for the time available to confirm purchase order items, all items are displayed as due for confirmation on the current day.

You cannot change the time intervals of the chart axis.

End of the note.

You can navigate to a worklist where you can process the respective items by clicking a column in the bar chart, an item in the legend, or you can get the complete list of purchase order items to be confirmed by clicking the title of the chart. The worklist also includes the purchase order items that have confirmation schedule lines, but the requested quantity is not completely covered by confirmations.

You can also access the worklists by choosing the Purchase Orders screen, and there choosing a worklist, for example,Items to Confirm from the list of worklists

Purchase Order Items of Particular Importance

The system offers you two links to navigate you to worklists that contain items of special importance from the items that should be confirmed:

Items with unread notes
This worklist consists of items that have at least one note from the customer that none of the supplier users at your company has read yet.
Flagged items
By selecting this link, you get a list of purchase order items that any of the supplier users at your company considered important, and flagged them.

For more information about notes and flags, see Actions in the Worklists for Purchase Orders.

Items Due for ASN Creation Chart

You see the schedule lines of purchase order items that are due for ASN creation, grouped by the due date on this chart. A schedule line is considered due for ASN creation if the schedule line quantity is not completely covered by ASNs. The due date is either the shipping date or the delivery date, based on the settings the customer has made in SAP SNC.

You can navigate to a worklist where you can process the respective items by clicking a column in the bar chart, or you can get the complete list of purchase order item schedule lines that are due for ASN creation by clicking the title of the chart. The worklist also includes the purchase order item schedule lines for which ASNs have been created, but the ASN-confirmed quantity does not completely cover the requested quantity.

You can also access the worklist by choosing the Purchase Orders screen, and there choosing Items Due for ASN Creation from the list of worklists.

ASN Status Overview Chart

On this chart, you can track your ASNs to find out which of them you should publish, and which shipments you should prepare. You can also see whether the customer has posted goods receipt for the ASN.

You can navigate to a worklist where you can display, edit, publish, or cancel ASNs – depending on their statuses – by clicking the title of the chart (to have a complete ASN worklist), by clicking a sector in the chart, or a legend item (to get only the respective items in the worklist).

You can also access the worklist by choosing the ASNs screen.

Selections

On the Home screen, you can choose from several selections. The data visualized on the charts is the data resulting from the selection you have chosen.

You can manage your selections on the Home screen. For more information, see Selections.

More Information

For more information about purchase order collaboration and delivery collaboration, see the SAP Library for SAP SNC on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/snc.