Purchase order confirmation control key issue

Hi,
We have an issue about vendor confirmation control key in transactions ME21N/ME22N
We have custom document types defined , ZNB - this is normal purchase order for external vendors and ZSTO - this is stock transfer orders between plants belonging to our corporation.
For ZNB we can introduce the confirmation control keys with no problem.
But when we try to introduce the confirmation control key for the ZSTO document type, the value is simply ignored and the field is reset to blank (NO error message)
My question what can be the reason for this , probably there is some customizing setup that creates this behaviour but I cannot find it.
Thanks
H.Z.

I put this succesive screen shots, first I select the confirmation key and after pressing enter the field is reset to blank .....
I was trying to find also user exista but with no success so far ....
Thanks
H.Z.

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Confirmation control key issue

Hi EXPERTS
I would like to know under what circumstances can the confirmation control key be included in the line item of a PO after GRN is done.
I am faced with a scenario where the GR of the line item of a PO is done and their is a confirmation control key attached to this line item But I donot find any inbound delivery details in the line item nor does it look that the inbound delivery is deleted
This line item now need to be reversed ( but the system doesnot allow stating that their are no suitable line items available
(I tried 102Mvt Thru' MIGO)
Could you pelase guide me regarding this situation and suggest ways and means for PO line item reversal
Thanks VC

HI,
Purchase Order Item Confirmations Tabstrips:
The confirmation control key controls the process subsequent to the creation of the PO.
E.g. For some important materials with long delivery times, you wish to receive advance information (via the shipping notification or inbound delivery) about the expected GR date so that you can include this information in the availability check.
The confirmation functionality is used to get better visibility & control over the goods receipts. Due to this requirement, when you work with confirmations, the system will not propose any quantity for MIGO unless any confirmations are entered in the PO. Also, MIGO will propose only such quantity for which the confirmation is entered.
In the purchase order, there is a field confirmation control key, following is its function extracted from text book.
1.The confirmation control key governs whether confirmations are expected for specific purchase order items and whether these confirmations are relevant for goods receipt or materials planning.
2. If a material document is to be created when the goods receipt posting for the inbound delivery is carried out, then the goods receipt assignment must be defined in the confirmation control.
How to set this field?
Configuration path:
SPRO -> MM -> Purchasing -> Confirmations -> Set up confirmation control or tcode OMGZ
Explain is there a necessity to fill the confirmation control, order acknowledgement & confirmation requirement. In STO normally we input the data for normal P.O.'s.only. If we input the above said data what happens if not what happens.
Confirmation gives the details of the shipping data, acknowledgement, delivery details etc......Overall view..
If it is used then Inbound delivery has to be created else GR is not possible...
VL31N--Inbound PO wrt PO/STO.(manual)..
If idoc /edi are configure, then everything will be automatic.
Confirmation Control is configured in SPRO -> Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Confirmations -> Setup Confirmation Control. The Confirmation Control should be assigned to the Vendor in Purchasing View (MK01/MK02). This it gets copied into the PO.
How to change the confirmation key in PO?
I have to change the confirmation key (in me23N) in the confirmation tab. It is working fine if there is no partial GR (entry in delivery schedule tab) against that line item. But if there is a GR entry against that line item its giving me a message 'confirmation key should not be changed'.
This is the standard of SAP....once GR is existing for the line then you can't change the confirmation key. To change, reverse the GR and change the key then Post GR again.
or
You can short close the PO line which you already have GR and create new line with remaining qty and enter new confirmation key.
pherasath

MIGO error 'Purchase Order does not contain a confirmation control key'

Hi,
while posting GR to a PO i am getting an error ' Purchase order XXXXXXXXX does not contain a confirmation control key'
it is true that i have not defined any confirmation control key in PO, Aknowled rerd checkbox is also not ticked
Still why this message coming, what setting would be bringing this message
Please clarity

Hi,
Until the installation of Note 589422 (with SP SAPKH46C43) you could due to a program error - create a delivery even though the purchase order did not contain any confirmation control key.
This is now prevented through error message M7394. The transfer of this check (Confirmation control key existing in the purchase order, see Note 589422) was necessary as otherwise you could post a purchase order as desired. (Refer to also Note 616944 -> SAPKH46C44)
589422 Several inbound deliveries can be created with MIGO :
"Implement the program correction.
With Transaction SE91 create message M7394 with the message text:
Purchase order & & does not contain a confirmation control key".
After you implemented this correction, when you want to create an
inbound delivery with Transaction MB01 or MIGO or with
BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE and if the purchase order does not contain a
confirmation control key the system displays error message M7394
"Purchase order & & does not contain a confirmation control key".
Hope this can explain the error you met.
Regards,
Mauro

Purchase order does not contain a confirmation control key

Hi expert
I have not set any confirmation control key in Purchasare order, still at the Migo, system is showing error at depot.
I have check the same thing with manufacturing plant, system dont show me any error.
Regard
Nabil

Hi,
I f the confirmation control key is maintained in PUR.info record is automatically will fetch into PO though you have not selected manually in PO. The CC maintained in vendor master or PIR can copy into PO. In your case please see whether inbound delivery is needed to perform GR? CC implies many types of confirmations like order acknowledgement, advanced shipping notification or confirmation of delivery dates. Please see specifically to the error. Try to know the type confirmation system needs to post GR. Thanking you.

Confirmation control key check for inbound delivery creation

Hi,
Currently, in the Client's company, the process of receiving goods from purchase orders looks like that (SAP-wise):
- create a purchase order,
- receive goods using MIGO and automatically create an inbound delivery,
- pack the delivery and post goods receipt.
Recently, some patches have been installed, including one described by note 1602047 (which basically enforces checking confirmation control keys if goods receipt assignment and goods receipt relevance are activated for inbound deliveries). Note says that it only affects two-step stock transfer and creation of automatic inbound deliveries using SPED output but it seems it also affects other basic processes like PO receipt in MIGO.
Now, when using the old control key (that had MRP-Relevant and GR-Relevant fields checked), the system is unable to automatically create an inbound delivery after the goods receipt is posted with MIGO (with message VL148 - Not possible to create an inbound delivery). I learned that this is because the "GR Assignment" field must be checked in the confirmation control key so it's possible to automatically create aninbound delivery after receiving a purchase order in MIGO.
After changing the confirmation control key to have the missing field checked it's not possible anymore to receive goods from PO in MIGO as the PO requires shipping notification in order to be processed in MIGO thus requiring of manual creation of an inbound delivery.
Is there any way to skip this check so the process would remain the same (this model has been working fine for few years in the Client's system) and the inbound delievery would be created automatically after posting the receipt in MIGO?
Thanks in advance,
Piotr

Hi,
don't know if you found a solution, but we received the following message from SAP:
The advent of the new version requires some attention to the users. It
was necessary to avoid inconsistencies which in the past version the
system was susceptible.
Main Program SAPMM07M
Source code of MM07MLVS
sy-msgid VL sy-msgty E sy-msgno 148
I have checked the process and through debugged I could confirm the
following information SAP is providing to all similar incidents reportedfor us:
Error message VL 148 is issued if in the confirmation control key used
in the purchase order, the fields for MRP-relevance (T163G-KZDIS),
GR relevance (T163G-WEREL) and GR assignment indicator (T163G-WEZUO)
are not set.
The correction of note 1602047 was necessary to avoid inconsistencies
(table EKES) in the purchase order. Without having the GR assignment
(T163G-WEZUO) set, there is no unique reference created between the
purchase order history (table EKBE) and the inbound delivery
confirmation (table EKES) at goods receipt which leads to a problem if
several inbound deliveries exist for the same purchase order.
If you set T163G-WEZUO to 'X', this assures that, for an inbound
delivery, the confirmation record (EKES) belonging to this inbound
delivery (EKES-VBELN) is also accurately updated at goods receipt.
How to solve the issue?
Use a confirmation control key with the GR assignment indicator set
and then create the inbound delivery with VL31N. If you want to be able
to create the inbound delivery with reference to a certain line item in
the PO, use transaction VL34.
If you still want to use transaction MIGO, there is the following
workaround:
- Create a purchase order without any confirmation control key
- Create a goods receipt (GR) in transaction MIGO with reference to this PO and post the GR to a non-HU-managed storage location
- Create a transfer posting with MIGO using movement type 311 to
transfer the goods from the non-HU-managed storage location to the
HU-managed storage location.
As the transfer posting is an additional step for the user, the whole
process could be automated using a partner storage location
(T001l-PARLG) for the GR which then triggers (through a modification)
the BAPI 'BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE' to create the transfer posting without
user interaction.
I hope to have satisfied you on the reason why it is now happening and
also I believe you can explain to business that it is a new behavior
necessary done from SAP side to avoid worse situations, we are aware of
potential dissatisfaction it might cause. SAP Support is always
available to clarify any issue.
Sorry for not having a more positive answer.
I hope it helps!
Leentje

SUS Purchase Order Confirmation notification (or alert) is possible ?

Hello,
We work on a SRM 5 release with a classic scenario.
We use the EBP-SUS supplier collaboration scenario (clients are different for SRM and SUS).
The purchasing document flow is describe below:
1- SRM Shopping Cart
2- R/3 Purchase Request (then, SRM SC history is updated with the PR number)
3- R/3 Purchase Order (then, an IDoc is sent to XI which generates a XML document sent to EBP-SUS in order to create the corresponding sales order - SRM SC history is updated with the PO number).
4- Then, supplier can confirm or reject the PO received. So, the SUS Purchase Order Confirmation is generated and sent back to R/3 ( via XI)
5- R/3 PO is updated with the posted PO confirmation (you can see the confirmation control key AB in the 'Confirmation' tab of the PO item concerned).
My request is to send a notification to the requester's mail client in order to inform him that supplier confirmed or rejected the PO.
I noticed that notification receivers definition is possible in SPRO, but only for "Process Purchase Order Response". I guess this notification is for BUS2209 (SRM POR) and not for BUS2232 (PO confirmation for SUS).
That's why i cannot use it: can anyone confirm this ?
As alternative, i tried to use alert management in SPRO (in the SUS client) for BUS2232 with sub-category of event SRM_SUS_PO_CONF in ALRTCATDEF transaction for SRM Alerts, but it does not work (even if i schedule report RSALERTPROC ).
Does anyone have a suggestion regarding my customizing ?
Finally, when PO confirmation is posted in R/3 (step 5 seen above), the SRM SC history is not updated with the PO confirmation number: is this the standard way ?
If yes and that the described notification (alert) customizing i indicated above are not possible, does it seem i will have to develop a specific notification process in R/3 when R/3 PO is updated with its PO confirmation coming from SRM-SUS ?
Thank you for your help.
Regards.
Laurent.

Hello Nagarajan,
>
> Looks like your intent is to notify the Shopping Cart requestor about the PO response that happens in the Back end system!
> This looks strange but then it is really required if you have a common buyer in SRM and MM.
>(...)
Requester being the initiator of purchasing document flow, custumer request is to alert him about supplier POR.
If i send my notification from R/3, i will get Requester name at R/3 PO item. Then, by a RFC call to SRM, i will get his data to generate my e-mail.
>
> The following approach can be adopted:
> 1.Purchase Oder Response Message can be pulled out of the XI thro a technical routing into the SRM which will post the Purchase Oder response in the SRM ( SRM PO will be updated)..There could be some issues with the variance POR and the status of the POR but that can be handled..
>(...)
I cannot do this: PO does not exist in SRM as we are in classic scenario.
>
> I am unsure of the Alert Management.. but I heard there should be a way for that also..
> (...)
I carry on checking this solution
>
> You can raise an OSS Message for the same pls.
>(...)
Don't have time for this and SAP will answer that this is consulting and not support
I will also verify if i can find a BAdI dedicated to SUS Purchase Order Response and use it to generate my e-mail from SUS client (or maybe some enhancements).
Regards.
Laurent.

Purchase Order Confirmation Tab

Hi,
When I do inbound delivery thru VL31, when vendor sends the parts, I could see the Confirmation tab in ME23n getting updated with the delivered qnty , date etc...
I would like to know where is the Configuration (Confirmation control key settings) set to update the Confirmation in the Purchse Orders.
Is't in Sales or in Purchasing? Please do let me know the path in IMG.
Thanks,
Pri

Hello Anne,
IMG path :
SPRO> Material Management-> Purchasing-> Confirmations-> Set up confirmation Control.
Hope it help.
Regards,
Nisha
@award pts if helpful.

Confirmation Control Key Value in vendor master overwritten by Info Record?

Dear all
In the standard 3rd party processing, we will use S/O to trigger PR and we then convert PR to PO. And when PO is converted, Confirmation Control Key (CCK) Z01 maintained in Vendor master purchasing view will be adopted for all the items in the PO, and in the purchase infor Record for the combination of material & this vendor, we do not maintain any CCK value there.
However recently, the system behaves in such a way that the CCK value does not automatically show up in PO item anymore. And I have been thinking can it be the fact that the blank value of CCK in info record will overwrite the Z01 value in the CCK of vendor master? But if so, why all the past PO I have checked does not have CCK value maintained in info record but the CCK was able to appear automatically?
An interesting fact is that if I create the PO manually by enter Vendor with CCK value Z01, Org Data, account assignment S and Item category S (both for 3rd party processing), and then the material and hit ENTER, the CCK value Z01 will appear in PO Item level under tab: Confirmation.
However, once I enter the PLANT value in PO Overview, seem like the Empty value of CCK in info record will overwrite the existing Z01 value.
Please advise if it is how the info record CCK work to overwrite? Also, how do I get back to the stage where the info record CCK will not overwrite as I do not want to spend time to update all the info record CCK to have Z01.
Thanks

Dear Manohar Raju Kanchanapally
I do not understand why this OSS note SAP Note 909885 - ME21N: Confirmation control key not
from vendor mentions the following:
Symptom:
When you create a purchase order using Transaction ME21N, the confirmation control key from the vendor master is not used, although it is maintained.
Cause and Prerequisites:
The symptom occurs if no confirmation control key was maintained in the existing purchasing info record.
Solution:
Implement the attached correction instructions as a modification.
It is totally contrary with the General Rule that the most specific will always prevails, meaning if I do not maintain CCK value in the Info Record, it will overwrite the CCK value I maintain vendor master when I create PO using same vendor, material, purchaisng org and plant!
Please help!
Edited by: Daimos on Sep 17, 2009 1:22 PM
Edited by: Daimos on Sep 17, 2009 1:22 PM

Default values for confirmation control key

Dear forum
I am using a confirmation control key 0004 Shipping notification (standard SAP) in the Purchase order line item (created with ME21n).
When I enter the confirmation data (with transaction ME22n) in the purchase order line item (confirmations tab), I have to type in delivery date, quantity and so on manually, which is standard.
But, what if I want to copy the original delivery date and quantity from the line item in the order, and use this as default value for the line item confirmation data...is it possible somehow?
The reason why I want to do this is for the user not having to go in and update this date manually all the time, but only when the confirmed dates/quantities differ from the desired delivery date and quantities in the purchase order line item. We are not on EDI or using Inbound deliverys for Purchase orders.
Thanks
Ola

Hi,
The Confirmation is nothing but the acknowledgement.So, its usually entered manuallly by the authorised User allowing follow on documents for Purchase Order.
You can chesk once the customisation of Confiramtion control keys for automatic update indicator.
Yes, you can use User Exit and develop with the help of ABAPERS.
Hope it will help you.
Regards,
Smitha

Confirmation Control Key

Hi
Do anyone know if it is possible to use "Confirmation Control Key" in SRM Contracts and Purchase Orders?
We are running Externat Scenarios in SRM7.0
We want the same functionality as the key in MM Contracts and PO to determines which confirmation categories are expected (e.g. order acknowledgment, shipping notification).
Thanks in advance
Br
Jesper

Hi Jesper,
what do you mean by External Scenarios in SRM ? is this standalone or Extended classic ?
If its extended classic then just do settings in ECC and in the PO you will get the confirmation control key as desired.
Best Regards,
Anil

Confirmation control key determination In PO

Hi Experts ,
Kindly suggest how confirmation control key is determined in purchase order ?
My requirement is like , if i have PO with different document type i need to have different confirmation control keys
How can i achieve this ?
Thanks in advance
Jinoy

Hi,
Condition control keys are setup generic to the purchasing documents, viz. PO, Outline Agreements.
The control key defaults on the purchasing document from the record source assigned for the purchasing line items. Control key defaults from Info. Record or Outline Agreement or from Vendor Master Record, if the control key is specified in these.
Eg. If There is no info. record or Outline agreement exist as a source for a particular Purchase item, then the control key would default from Vendor Master record of the Purchasing document.
Regards
Prasan

Update PO with Confirmation Control Key,Acknowledged Delivery Date.

Hi Experts,
I have a requirement that through a Excel file I have to update a Existing PO with the three fields,
1.Confirmation Control Key
2.Acknowledged Delivery Date.
3.Acknowledged Modified Delivery Date.
If there will be differ in values in any of the field in the existing PO and the incoming excel file then we need to update the
fields in the PO.
So is there any BAPI or FM to update the field value?
I tried with BAPI_PO_CHANGE it is not working.
In excel we have only five fields.
1.PO number
2.Item
3.Confirmation Control Key
4.Acknowledged Delivery Date.
5.Acknowledged Modified Delivery Date
Please help.
Regards,
Umesh

you can use BAPI_PO_CHANGE itself, but you need to get the details of the current PO before passing the details to BAPI_PO_CHANGE
you can use BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL1 by passing ( PURCHASEORDER = <..Your Purchase order Number..> ) and after that you willl
get all the details of the PO, just change the required data's and pass it to the BAPI_PO_CHANGE. It will be easier.
after you receive all the data,
pass the corresponding data from BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL1
to BAPI_PO_CHANGE.
1.PO number                    -     PURCHASEORDER (importing)
2.Item                         -     POITEM (Tables )
3.Confirmation Control Key          -     POCONFIRMATION (Tables)
4.Acknowledged Delivery Date.
5.Acknowledged Modified Delivery Date
I think for 4,5 fields are also in POCONFIRMATION table itself (not sure)

VMI scenario: purchase order confirmation send to vendor

Hello Dear Sappers,
I'm using message type ORDRSP (Idoc ORDERS05) for inbound idoc for Vendor Managed Inventory, and it works. Then, once the PO is created in our SAP, the system automatically send a PO confimattion message to our vendor through message variant VMI in the partner profile for the EDI message category ORDCHG.
The system, once the PO is created, send an automatically ORDCHG Idoc to the vendor. The problem is that the system send the PO confirmation before the PO is release/aproved. That is a problem. My requeriment is to send the PO confirmation Idoc to the vendor after the PO is release.
This is my configuration:
Partner profile:
When a message of the ORDRSP type is processed, a purchase order is created for the vendor who sent the purchase order confirmation.
When a message of the ORDRSP type is processed, a purchase order is created for the vendor who sent the purchase order confirmation.
Partner no.          VENDOR_AG
Description:          VENDOR AG
Partner Type:     LI
Message Type:     ORDRSP
Message Code:     VMI
Process Code:     ORDV
Processing:          Trigger immediately
Send Purchase Order confirmation number to VENDOR AG:
Partner no.          VENDOR_AG
Description:          VENDOR AG
Partner Type:     LI
Partner Function     VN
Message Type:     ORDCHG
Idoc Type:          ORDERS05
Message Code:     VMI
Receiver Port:     CI.SPARES
Pack Size:          1
Output Mode:     Transfer Idoc immediately
Message Control     Application: EF; Message type ZPOC; Process code ME11 and Change message indicator set.
I created the Output Type ZPOC but when I tried to added manually to the PO "Maintain outgoing EDI-connection data for partner VENDOR_AG.
However the strange thing is that the system send the PO confimation IDoc ORDCHG anyway (without any Output Type). But send the Idoc inmediatly the PO is created (not yet release).
My question here is: how can I only send to the vendor the IDoc ORDCHG only when the PO is release?
Thanks a lot to all
Fred

Hi,
This problem was solved. I had to remove the message variant VMI from the partner profile. Keep the message type ORDCHG but without VMI variant. And with that way, the system do not send the Idoc after the PO is created. SAP send the Idoc after the PO is release and do it by Output Type determination.
The key was to remove the message variant! Unbelievable!
Thanks to all.
Fred.-

Confirmation Control Key not transfered to backend

Hi All,
I have a problem for SRM POs. We have a particular Confirmation Control Key(CCK) configured for a vendor in the vendor master.
Whenever a PO is created in SRM and transfered to R/3 this value needs to be populated in the R/3 PO as well. However this is not happening for all the POs.
A few POs are having the CCK and few dont have it. Any idea why?
Regards
Zubair

Hi Zubair,
Check the following threads which might help you in resolving your issue.
Confirmation Control Key
Re: PurchOrder <PO number> : Enter Conf. Control
If the CCK is not maintained in vendor master it would be maintained in Configuration. If not check the purchase info record or the contract reference.
This might be the reason why for some vendor P.Os its coming and for some its not coming.
Check the same and let us know in case of any further clarifications.
Regards,
Teja

Confirmation control key does not exist

There is a old one PO, which was created with confirmation control key ZSC1 ; Now issue is ZSC1 has been deleted but it is showing in po, now user want to close the po as want to ticked the "delivery completed" ind. in the Delivery tab page at Item level in the po.
In this cas he is facing the error as "Confirmation control key does not exist" so:-
1. How can be close the po.
2.Is there any option, from where we can check the change control i.e. can be checked when ZSC1 was deleted.

Hi Jurgen,
I think you misinterpret regarding this issue.
confirmation control key is not deleted in PO.
It is deleted from configuration setting I mean from IMG -> Material Management -> purchasing -> confirmation -> Setup confirmation control.
since it's exists in po but not in config. thats the reason system given us that error.
so my question was:-
how to get change control for the same, i.e. when it was deleted from config. setting
And how set del. completed ind. in po for closing the po, bcoz it's showing error as "Confirmation control key ZSC1 does not exists"

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