Confirmation Control Key Field Missing

[mkent]

Hi all,

I have started with a new company at the beginning of the year and still trying to understand some of the processes and thoughts behind them.

In this case, we are using EDI to transmit Purchase Orders and receive Order Acknowledgements followed by a Dispatch Advice. The problem that we have is that some Order Acknowledgement messages are failing as the Confirmation Control Key is missing but when I check the Info Record for a Vendor/Material combination, the area where you would usually find the Confirmation Control Key is missing completely so we have no option to enter the Confirmation Control Key.

The Confirmation Control Key is not set in the Vendor Master Data either so I cannot see how some materials are flowing through EDI yet others aren't.

How is this possible and could there have been a reason why this would have been hidden from view?

Many thanks for any help.

[BalaAP · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have checked in below path-

SPRO - Materials Management - Purchasing - Purcahsing Info Record - Define Screen Layout for ME11 and ME12

and double-click field selection "Delivery Monitoring". Here you will find a field Label "Confirmation control key". For this field, you must tick "Opt.Entry" or "Reqd.Entry" or "Display". If no ticks are there for all of these 3 options, this field may undergo "hidden" in your ME11/ME12 screen. But for ME11 the tick for "Display" will not be relevant.

regards,

Bala

[mkent]

Thanks again Bala, I need to understand how some materials have a confirmation key and others don't when we cannot see the confirmation control key.

[BalaAP]

Hi,

You can check in config path SPRO - Materials Management - Purchasing - Prcahsing Info Record - Define Screen Layout for ME11 and ME12

whether this field is made hidden. If this is not hidden, then you can debug this screen using abaper for any clue.

regards,

Bala

[mkent]

Thanks Bala, this does indeed confirm that the field is hidden which leads me onto the second part to the query:

Do you have any idea how the Confirmation Control Key is present in the Purchase Order for a number of material/Vendor combinations yet not in other materials for the same Vendor?

My understanding was that this would be driven by the Info Record in the first instance and then at Vendor level if this is not present?

Thanks again

Mark