1. 1 SAP Logistic Chair or Production & Operations Management University of Vienna All for One Vienna, Austria Franz Birsel Production Confimation

2. 2 All for One Vienna, Austria Chair of Production & Operations Management University of Vienna Overview  Confirmations are the basis for the progress monitoring and the capacity planning.  Confirmations should be as prompt as possible.  In practise there are different confirmation methods:  Order-related confirmation  Activity-related confirmation  Retrograde material entries will be dissolved by the confirmation.  The control key of this activity decides about the method of confirmation :  Milestone confirmation  Normal confirmation  No confirmation

3. 3 All for One Vienna, Austria Chair of Production & Operations Management University of Vienna Order-related confirmation  The order-related confirmation is a confirmation of a whole order on the order header level.  A confirmation to the order can only be conducted, if no confirmations have been registered yet.

4. 4 All for One Vienna, Austria Chair of Production & Operations Management University of Vienna Activity-realated confirmation  The activity-related confirmation offers the possibility to return the order step-by-step.  Each transaction receives automatically a confirmation number at order opening. Herewith it is explititely identifiable without any further details.  Each transaction has a control key. Herewith it is defined how this action has to be or can be responded.

5. 5 All for One Vienna, Austria Chair of Production & Operations Management University of Vienna Activity-related confirmation  The activity-related confirmation offers the possibility to return the order step-by-step.  Each transaction receives automatically a confirmation number at order opening. Herewith it is explititely identifiable without any further details.  Each transaction has a control key. Herewith it is defined how this action has to be or can be responded.  One action can be marked as milestone. This means that in case of a confirmation also its predecessors are responded automatically and quantity-based. A responded action has to be released.

6. 6 All for One Vienna, Austria Chair of Production & Operations Management University of Vienna Questions ???