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3806149 - How Milestone Confirmations and Collective Confirmations Work in Production Orders

Symptom

It is not clear how milestone confirmations work in production orders or how to use them. Questions arise about what the MILE and MCNF statuses mean, how confirming one operation can automatically confirm preceding operations, what happens when multiple operations are marked as milestones, how suboperation confirmations interact with milestone logic, and how activities are calculated in automatically confirmed operations. It is also not clear how to use collective entry (CO15) to confirm multiple operations in one step, or how it differs from single time ticket entry (CO11N).


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Environment

  • SAP ERP Production Planning (PP)
  • SAP ERP All versions
  • SAP ERP Central Component All versions
  • SAP R/3 All versions
  • SAP R/3 Enterprise All versions
  • SAP S/4HANA All versions
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition All versions
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP All versions
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA All versions

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP R/3 Enterprise all versions ; SAP R/3 all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

milestone confirmation, MILE, MCNF, PCNF, CNF, collective confirmation, collective entry, CO11, CO11N, CO15, CO12, CO13, control key, milestone operation, auto-confirmation, preceding operations, suboperation, setup time, planned scrap rate, activity calculation, fast entry, CORUPROC1, PP-SFC-EXE-CON, production order confirmation, confirmation type, summary confirmation, progress confirmation
, KBA , PP-SFC-EXE-CON , Confirmation , Problem

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