Manual approval of release orders

Unprocessed plans that must be approved manually are marked by the message Approval Required in the Error Message column on the Manage Unprocessed Plans page.

You can configure a manual approval of incoming release orders for a valid period and a message type on the Manual Approval Rules page. Additionally, you can select a message subtype, a customer, a ship to, and an internal item for an approval rule.

Note: A special case are unprocessed sequence schedules that have the exception status Pending. These unprocessed plans are automatically shown on the Manage Unprocessed Plans page. Sequence schedules do not require a manual approval configuration.

Before you approve a plan, you can check the log entries in the detail view of the Manage Unprocessed Plans page. If required, you can adjust the requirement quantity and other settings of the single plan.

On the Compare Release tab, you can check the requirements of the previous and the current single plans that have the same message type. At the bottom of the Compare Release tab, the requirements of the previous and the current single plans are listed. The requirements are listed in ascending order sorted by requirement date. Review the changes that are displayed in the Released CUM Difference column to decide whether you accept the changes or which actions you must perform.

When you approve an unprocessed plan, the next steps to generate the new plan are processed automatically.