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2839021 - Firm Status For Planning Proposals

Symptom

You have created for example a production proposal for a material via webservice: Manage Production Proposal and you find created Proposal is Firmed by User. Hence you want to know how new production proposal is firmed in the system automatically.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supply Planning work center.
  2. Go to Products vew.
  3. Select All Products by selection
  4. Search for required Product ID with respective Planning Area.
  5. Select and open it.
  6. Find Proposal ID: ABC ( Here ABC is a Proposal ID). Here, you observe that newly created Proposal ID via webservice is automatically Firmed by user (Note: whether it is a Purchase Proposal ID, Production Proposal ID or Stock Transfer Proposal ID)

Cause

Any Planning Proposals becomes a firm proposal which means it is manually created. And here when you have created a proposal via webservice which created by a techincal user which is manual and not by MRP run hence it is firmed and displays as firmed by user.

Resolution

If you do not want proposals to be firmed, follow below steps :

  1. Go to Supply Planning work center.
  2. Go to Products vew.
  3. Select All Products by selection
  4. Search for required Product ID with respective Planning Area.
  5. Select and open it.
  6. Here choose Run-> MRP.
  7. Now new created Planning Proposals will not be firmed.

See Also

2590650 - Purchase Proposals Does not Show Earliest Requirement Dates.

Keywords

Planning Proposals, Firmed by User, Firmed, MRP Run. , KBA , AP-SDM-MRP , Material Requirements Planning , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions