Generate Association Reports 

Use

The association status report shows you how far a contract has been processed and the association partners linked to the contract. The report also provides historical association data. Two kinds of reports are available in association management. One is the quantity overview report and the other is the association overview report.

Prerequisites

In each report, you can narrow your selection by entering a variety of selection fields such as contract number, article number and partner number. Additionally, you can specify a particular document status.

·        Association overview

The association overview displays all the associations linked to a trading contract item.

·        Long-Short analysis

The long-short analysis can be performed on either the purchasing side or the sales side. The result is that you are provided with an overview of all the current items that have not yet been completely processed.

Example:

You perform the report on the sales side. In the overview screen you can then display all the documents by month/document type/posting date. To open folders you click on the hierarchy nodes. This allows you to see the corresponding documents and their association partners with quantities and value data, if these exist. In this case the open quantity represents the “long item”, as it is not yet assigned to any sales item. By clicking on document numbers you can move to the corresponding original documents.

If you execute the report for the sales side you receive all “short items” to which no purchasing item has been assigned.

Procedure

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        1.      Use the following path: Logistics  ® SAP Global Trade Management  ® Association Management ® Reports.

Select the type of report you require:

¡        Quantity overview

¡        Association overview

        2.      Enter your selection criteria and choose Execute.