Trying to understand confirmations in CO09 and MD04.

Updated May 18, 2018

I'm trying to uderstand the "Confirmation" feature of SAP. For example:

I cut a subcontracting PO for a finished good that consumes 100 units of component A on day 1

I have 110 units of component A in stock so when I check component availability I see that 100 units confirmed on day 1

then I cut a second subcontracting PO for the same FG material for 80 units on day 2. When I perform the availability check I see that 80 units confirmed on day 2.

Now I have confirmations for a total of 180 units but I only have 110 units in stock.

I was under the impression that once a confirmation is done the quantity and material are allocated to the order and is therefore no longer "available". But that is not what I see.

Is there a way to "hard allocate" units of a component to the order for the higher assemnbly in a ay that nets it out of available inventory?

Every consultant I talked to seems to not really understand what the system logic is.

Thanks

Andre Soares

Comments

31 Mar 2009 9:50 am Guest
hi,
not sure if you already found out a solution to your prob. but you can actually manually do a stock allocation ( is that what you mean by "hard allocation" ? ) ... you can play around with the storage locations available ( good stock storage locations i mean ) and transfer the stocks there and give the stocks to whoever you like to ... i hope you get what i mean...

16 Apr 2009 12:36 pm Richard Litsky
Did you have on order along with the on hand when you did the confirmations? My understanding is that the system also looks at the on order and not just the on hand.