Inventory Confirmation after Delivery Creation!!!

[Former Member]

Hello

We have a strange requirement. An order gets created by IDOC.

1) NO ATP & SCHEDULE Line should be determined.

2) Delivery should be created.

3) Ready to Pick/Pack with Transportation details.

4) Customer REP should confirm inventory at this STEP.

i.e Inventory should be approcahed/reduced/blocked only at step 4.

Till 3 the stock shouldn't be under HOLD.

one of the reason being, order is taken in July and process it in November/December.

Even then the stock should be touched only when everything is ready! Del/Pic/Pack instructions and transportation.

Sounds little weird. Can we achieve this without any ABAP changes.

Is there a way to hold stock in BUFFER without actually blocking inventory during Sales order creation & confirmation.

Kindly help me with your inputs and i really appreciate your help.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Your process is different than the regular cycle. Consider the following process -

1) Create a Contract type of document from the incoming IDoc. You will register the order and at the same time, suppress any schedule lines.

2) Do NOT create any subsequent document at this time. Later (November) the Reps can create sales order with ref to the contract. Schedule lines will be created based on ATP.

3) Reps can re-shuffle stock using V_V2, prrioritizing orders as they want.

4) Then run delivery due list and create deliveries.

This will meet all your requirements, except that delivery will not be created in step (2). Why do you need it so early, anyway??