Confirmed supply type

This topic contains the following information:

How must the confirmed supply type of a confirmed-supply record be interpreted?
How does LN determine the confirmed supply type?

If you are the supplier in a vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) setup, LN can use the confirmed supply to plan the supply for a customer.

You can view and modify the a confirmed-supply record's type in the Confirmed Supply Type field in the Confirmed Supply to Customer (cpvmi0108m000) session.

Allowed values

A confirmed-supply record's type determines how that confirmed supply is handled:

Stock
Supply of type Stock is already present at the customer; so, you do not need to generate planned distribution orders to deliver the supply.
Immediate

Supply of type Immediate is used to increase the inventory level to at least the agreed minimum inventory level.

Planned distribution orders that result from this confirmed supply can be immediately transferred to the execution level.
To Release
If planned distribution orders are based on confirmed supply of type To Release, these orders get the Order Release field set to To be released. These planned orders can be immediately transferred to the execution level.
Planned
If planned distribution orders are based on confirmed supply of type Planned, these orders get the Order Release field set to Not to be released. These planned orders cannot be transferred to the execution level until the Order Release field is changed to To be released in a later planning run or manually.
Released
If a confirmed-supply record has confirmed supply type Released, the confirmed supply has already been covered by an actual order. This actual order corresponds with a scheduled receipt for the customer's warehouse.

Note: If you transfer a planned distribution order to the execution level, the planned order results in a warehousing order with inventory transaction type Transfer. Theoretically, a planned distribution order can also be transferred to a sales order, but that is not useful in a vendor-managed-inventory (VMI) setup.

How the confirmed supply type is determined

The confirmed supply type depends on the Replenishment Based On field in the Planning Terms and Conditions (tctrm1135m000) and the Order Release field in the Planned Orders (cprrp1100m000) session.