Release for Delivery
Application component: ATP: Backorder Processing
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Supply Chain
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Advanced Available-to-Promise  (S/4)
Scope items: Advanced Available-to-Promise Processing
Description:  With this app, you can prioritize due business documents (sales orders, stock transport orders) containing materials with limited availability in the order fulfillment responsibility to which you are assigned. The app allows you to view the material availability situation of materials for which you are responsible as well as assess the potential financial impact of being unable to fulfill order requirements. This, in combination with other factors, helps you decide how to distribute material quantities between order requirements, before you release the business documents for subsequent logistics processes.  
With this app, you can prioritize due sales and stock transport orders containing materials with limited availability in the order fulfillment responsibility to which you are assigned. The app allows you to view the material availability situation of materials for which you are responsible as well as assess the potential financial impact of being unable to fulfill orders. This, in combination with other factors, helps you decide how to distribute material quantities between orders, before you release the orders for subsequent logistics processes.
Key features:    Gain an overview of requirements to be delivered within a specific horizon by: Displaying business documents containing materials for which you are responsible during a specific time period, including requirements for materials with limited availability. Displaying the availability situation for the materials for which you are responsible. Displaying the confirmation and delivery status for the materials in a requirement item. Displaying the potential financial impact for your organization if materials are not available and material redistribution is not optimized. Displaying any constraining elements (for example, reduced available quantity at a storage location) that may prevent a requirement item being fulfilled partially or completely. Displaying any dependencies (for example, a particular item is part of a delivery group) that may impact a group of requirements from being fulfilled. Refreshing your worklist to take any changes in underlying business documents into consideration, since you started processing your worklist.  Distribute quantities of materials in limited supply by: Manually redistributing material quantities between requirement items, as required, to fulfill a business document partially or completely. Applying confirmation strategies such as Confirm from Top to enable efficient, semi-automatic processing of mass data. Protecting items and their confirmations from further processing and postponement (for example, if a finalized item is not be changed again before delivery creation). Postponing items from delivery creation (for example, if expected supply elements have not yet arrived).  Release materials for delivery, thus triggering subsequent logistics processes (for example, picking). Note that the number of delivery documents created interactively when business documents are processed is minimized: where possible, only one delivery document is created per business document processed.   
Business roles: Order Fulfillment Specialist
Order Fulfillment Specialist : 
Assures the highest percentage of order fulfillment for all customers and proactively monitors stock critical issues to avoid manual intervention.