Description
Program RWSORTA1 compares the status at any given time of purchaseorders, stocks and sales orders for a (wholesale) promotion.
You can run the program for all the materials in the promotion, or forselected materials only.
There are 2 methods of processing:
1. Only displaying the current status ("purchase order comparison")
2. Processing the sales order quantities ("quantity adjustment")
Variant 1 "Purchase order comparison":
Every purchase order or sales order can be branched to (position thecursor on the line and choose a function) and then edited. They can bedisplayed in the same way - there is a hotspot for this purpose in theline. You can also display stocks in detail using the hotpsot provided.
Variant 2 "Quantity adjustment":
In addition, you have the option of processing each order quantitymanually or automatically, provided that the order quantities for eachmaterial are not already covered by purchase orders / stocks. If yousave any changes, the corrected sales orders are changed in batchinput.
There are 4 methods of automatic processing available:
1. Equal distribution

• The sales orders of all customers are reduced in equal proportion.

2. External customers ahead of internal customers

• If possible, the sales orders of "external" customers are fulfilled
first. Afterwards the remainder is distributed to "internal" customers(stores / DCs).

• Sales orders are not combined.

3. Internal customers ahead of external customers.

• If possible, the sales orders of "internal" customers are fulfilled
first. Afterwards the remainder is distributed to "external" customers(not stores / DCs).

• Sales orders are not combined.

4. Link-up to a user exit

• This user exit will allow you to define quantity distribution methods
to suit your own needs - it has not yet been released for use, however(Rel. 1.2 B).

• At present, an error message is issued by the system if you attempt to
use this function.

Precondition
The promotion must already have been created and both purchase ordersand sales orders must exist.

Output
A list is output on screen for editing online.
You can also request a log of the changes made to the sales orders.