In global trade, you often need to process several different kinds of transactions at the same time. The Trading Execution Workbench (TEW) provides a central cockpit where traders can process trading contracts and their subcomponents, such as purchase orders and sales orders and follow-on documents. In addition, TEW automates a large part of the data entry, making processing quicker, easier, and more error-free.

You must install SAP Global Trade in order to use TEW. In addition, you must also customize the standard functions of SD/MM that are needed for background processing.

You can call the Position Management and Trading Expense functions directly from the TEW.

The following illustration gives an overview of how various global trade functions fit together with the TEW.

• Smart functions anticipate which tasks you want to perform and suggest the appropriate source and target documents automatically.

• You can process multiple documents on one screen (including creating deliveries, shipping notifications for customs clearance, posting goods issue, and so on).

• A document flow diagram helps you keep track of what follow-on documents you have already processed and what remains to be done.

• The system remembers your selection settings from one session to another so you don’t have to reenter them.

• A message area on the screen displays all errors, warnings, and information messages that you have received during the current session.

If you process a document in the TEW, you cannot use standard SD/MM transactions to make changes to it, as this could lead to data inconsistency.