Backorder Processing (Sales Scheduling Agreements) 

Use

You can check the availability of requirements from sales scheduling agreement items not only by using the feasibility check, but also by using the Global ATP Check (check method product availability check).

If necessary, the system can also generate partial confirmations during backorder processing in the background.

In comparison, in the feasibility check the requested quantities can either be completely confirmed (full confirmation), or not confirmed (feasibility not ok).

In interactive backorder processing, you can redistribute confirmed quantities across selected requirements.

 

In the confirmation profile, which you assign to sales scheduling agreement items, you can define the conditions under which a confirmation is full (compliant) or partial (deviating). Using the determination type you can define whether requested quantities have to be confirmed to the second, to the hour or to the day, in order for the system to issue a full confirmation.

The determination type that you have set in the confirmation profile determines whether you have fully or partially confirmed the requested quantities in backorder processing. The result of the check (Partial or Full Confirmation) is displayed as the Current Status of the sales scheduling agreement item.

Prerequisites

Make the necessary settings in Customizing for the Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP Check) under Product Availability Check.

You can use the Customer Exit APOBO010 to exclude sales scheduling agreement items with the current status Admissibility not ok from backorder processing, for example.

For more information on backorder processing, see the SAP Library for the Global Available-to-Promise Check (Global ATP) under Backorder Processing.

If necessary make corresponding settings in Customizing for Supply Chain Planning under Delivery Schedule Processing for the Sales Scheduling Agreement in the confirmation profile (see Prerequisites for the Sales Scheduling Agreement).

Activities

Interactive Backorder Processing

You can access backorder processing either by selecting a product or from a worklist.

To access backorder processing:

●      Choose the ATP tab page in the Product View.

●      In the Product Planning Table, choose the Backorder Processing chart.

●      Choose Global ATP ® Backorder Processing ® Interactive Backorder Processing and then select the Individual access tab page.

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       1.      Select the requested quantity (row) that you want to confirm and choose  (Add new schedule line).

       2.      Enter the quantity that you want to confirm.

       3.      To save your entries, choose .

Backorder Processing in the Background

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       1.      ChooseGlobal ATP ® Backorder Processing ® Backorder Processing in the Background.

       2.      On the Worklist tab page, enter the filter type, a variant and a sort profile. (Choose  Filter, to create a filter variant again, or  Sort order, to create a new sort profile.)

Using the filter, you can define which confirmation statuses should be taken into account for the items that you select.

On the Parameters Process tab page, select whether the result of backorder processing should be updated immediately, whether you want to carry out a simulation first, or whether you want to postprocess the result in interactive backorder processing (Backorder Processing Result).

To see a log, choose Results output on the Log tab page.

       3.      To start backorder processing, choose .

A list appears, displaying requested quantities, the old confirmation, the new confirmation and quantity and date changes that have occurred between requested quantities and dates and the confirmed quantities and dates (for example  Qty Status: Partial Confirmation).

Your customer needs 100 PC per day on five days in a row.

The result of the availability check tells you that you can only meet the requirements for the first four days.

On the last date the system can only confirm 80 PC, so the customer only receives a partial confirmation.