Determination of a Valid Contract from the Master Data 

Use

This function determines a valid contract, which is then used for the disposal when you create a purchase order, from the master data for a waste disposer.

Integration

This function is executed when you execute the order & clear or purchase order function.

Prerequisites

·        You have used the input help (Hierarchical) Search for Disposers from Disposal Channels to assign a waste disposer to the entry document for which a purchase order is to be created.

·        You observed the Notes on Assigning Contracts when you assigned the contract to a disposal channel or waste approval in the master data.

Features

This function determines the contract from the waste approvals or disposal channels for the waste disposer that you assigned to the entry document as follows:

A waste generator is a vendor in the system if it has been assigned a vendor as an integration object in the master data (see Assigning Integration Objects).

If you have assigned a waste disposer to an entry document but the system determines more than one contract (for example, because several waste approvals have been assigned to the disposal channel), a dialog box appears in which you must select a contract.

If you have assigned several waste disposers to an entry document, the system determines the contract or purchasing info record for all of them in the way described. If the system finds several contracts or purchasing info records, several purchase orders are created.

If the contract determined contains an incorrect vendor, material, or material group, in other words if you did not observe the Notes on Assigning Contracts when you assigned a contract to a disposal channel or waste approval, an error message is displayed. The purchase order is not created and the purchasing info records are not taken into account.

Activities

Add to the master data in Waste Management if required and create missing data in the SAP Purchasing component. You can find more information as follows:

For Information About:	See, for example:
Assigning a contract to a disposal channel	Editing Disposal Channels
Assigning a contract to a waste approval	Editing Waste Management Business Partner Assignments
Vendors	Vendor Master Data
Contracts (meaning purchasing document of category K)	Working with Purchasing Documents Creating a Contract
Release strategies	Release (Approval) Procedure
Purchasing info records	Purchasing Info Records