Confirmations document the processing status of activities and activity elements and enable you to forecast project progress. Confirmations perform various business transactions automatically, such as posting actual costs, actual dates, and actual labor (work) and, if applicable, changing the activity status.
You can create confirmations in the following ways:
Individually for each network, activity, activity element, or individual capacity. You enter the confirmation data for this type of confirmation on the detail screen.
As a collective confirmation. You can confirm various networks, activities, activity elements, and individual capacities at the same time with a collective confirmation. You enter the confirmation data for this type of confirmation on the list screen.
Using the structure information system (by selecting activities and accessing individual or collective confirmation). From the information system, you can send a confirmation work-flow to another user or organizational unit. As an alternative, you can save a pool of confirmations and select this pool later in the collective confirmation transaction of the time sheet.
Using the Cross-Application Time Sheet (CATS). CATS is an integrated function used to enter actual time data important in HR, PS, PM, CS, CO, and MM.
Through the Internet (by creating an individual or collective confirmation or entering time data in the time sheet).
Using the plant data collection (PDC) interface.
Individual and Collective Confirmation
You can confirm one activity or activity element with an individual confirmation. You enter the confirmation data for this type of confirmation on the detail screen.
You can confirm various networks, activities, activity elements, and individual capacities at the same time with a collective confirmation. Enter the confirmation data for this type of confirmation on the list screen.
From the structure information system, you can perform the following actions for the activities you have selected:
Navigate to the individual confirmation transaction.
Navigate to the collective confirmation transaction.
Save a pool of confirmations; you can then select this pool in the collective confirmation transaction of the time sheet.
Send a pool of confirmations as a work-flow to other users who can then navigate from their office inbox to the collective confirmation transaction.
Activity Confirmation
This figure describes how actual costs are derived from the confirmation of an activity. The confirmation of an activity leads to an activity allocation, which leads to a credit to the cost center assigned to the work center and a debit to the activity.
The valuation variant assigned to the actual costing variant controls the price used for activity allocation.
The actual costing variant determines the valuation strategy for activities and business processes. It determines the value of inventory transactions. The accounting value of the inventory determines the actual material costs (based on the accounting view of the material master using either standard or moving average price control).
Forklift Confirmation
Confirmations result in actual costs debited to network activities. Confirmations credit the cost center assigned to the work center and debit network activities.
