| # Approve Confirmed Supply (cpvmi0208m000) Use this session to approve the confirmed supply before sending the data to your customer. The confirmed supply you send to your customer constitutes a commitment to deliver. To view and modify the confirmed supply, use the Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0108m000) session. Sold-to BP sold-to business partner Planner The planner responsible for planning this plan item. You define a plan item's planner in the Planner field in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session. Plan Item An item with the order system Planned. The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand. You can plan these items by means of the following: Master-based planning, which is similar to master production scheduling techniques. Order-based planning, which is similar to material-requirements planning techniques. A combination of master-based planning and order-based planning. Plan items can be one of the following: An actual manufactured or purchased item. A product family. A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a generic item. A group of similar plan items or families is called a product family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for distribution planning. Approve unchanged Supply If this check box is selected, the confirmed supply is approved even if the dates and quantities are exactly the same as in the previous revision of the confirmed supply. Accept Delivery Moments before current Date If this check box is selected, the session also approves the confirmed supply if the confirmed-supply records contain dates that lie in the past. Accept negative Difference If this check box is selected, the session also approves confirmed supply if the confirmed supply quantity is likely to be insufficient to prevent a shortage. If this check box is cleared, and the confirmed supply is based on the total forecast, this session does not approve the confirmed supply if, within the confirm supply time fence, the total difference becomes negative. If the confirmed supply is based on the confirmed forecast, the check is performed on the confirmed difference. To view the total difference and the confirmed difference, use the Total Difference field and the Confirmed Difference field in the Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0108m000) session. The basis for the calculation of the confirmed supply is specified in the Confirmed Supply Based On field in the Planning Terms and Conditions (tctrm1135m000) session. The confirm supply time fence is specified in the Confirm Supply Horizon field in the Planning Terms and Conditions (tctrm1135m000) session. Accept Inactive Business Partners If this check box is selected, you approve the confirmed supply, even for sold-to business partners that have been marked as inactive. The Business Partner Status field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000) details session indicates whether a business partner is inactive. Related topics Business partner status Print Approved Confirmed Supply If this check box is selected, the session prints a report with revisions of the confirmed supply you approved for sending to the customer. Print Errors If this check box is selected, the session prints an error report. Approve Approves the designated confirmed-supply data. |