Processing Associations in a Trading Contract 

Use

You can process associations after you have assigned a portfolio to a contract item. You can specify when association maintenance is to be called in Customizing. It can be called both automatically (when creating an item) and manually.

Procedure

Create new association

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        1.      After you enter a contract item and its quantity, you must assign a portfolio to the contract item.

If you have made the relevant setting in Customizing you are automatically taken to the screen for association maintenance.

To call the association maintenance screen manually, select an item, follow the path Goto ® Items ® Associations, and then select the tab page Association.

        2.      A new window opens, displaying the contract item in the upper area and the associated item list in the lower area.

You can change association partner quantities directly. If you want to create an association for a candidate, select the corresponding item in the lower part of the screen and choose Change entries.

        3.      Change the quantity in the New quantity field and then press Enter to confirm the change.

The changes are reflected in the displayed data.

        4.      Choose Copy data.

You are then taken back to the contract maintenance screen.

Process association

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        1.      Choose Reassociate from the tab page Associations.

        2.      The contract item and the association partners are displayed.

You can change the association quantity in the New quantity field. Quantities that have already been passed on to follow-on logistics documents are not displayed here.

        3.      Choose Copy data to confirm the changes.