We have created a new sales document ZWK1 especially for this IDES process. In contrast to contract type WK1 (general contract type), which is supplied with the standard, you can create contract data for contracts of the new sales order type. This enables you to store price agreements in the contract.

In contracts of sales document type ZWK1, the system defaults rule B for checking the authorized release partners. This rule ensures that the system checks the customer in the customer hierarchy. The system accepts the partner as the ship-to party of the contract if the partner wishing to release from the contract is the ship-to party of the contract, or if they are assigned to the ship-to party of the contract at a lower level of the customer hierarchy.

Contracts of contract type ZWK1 can be released through standard orders (sales document type OR). To transfer the partner data from the contract to the order, we defined a new copy routine and entered this into the copy control of both document types. The copy routine ensures that only the releasing ship-to party is transferred in the release, and the other partners are determined from the master data of the ship-to party.