Using the Foreign Trade Import/Export Journals 

Use

You can use the Foreign Trade Strategic Cockpit Journal functions to display and analyze both import and export documents in the SAP system.

For example, you can display data lists and analytical graphs for

·         Purchase orders

·         Goods receipts

·         Export billing documents

To go to the "Strategic Cockpit" from the SAP standard menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management)  ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® General Foreign Trade Processing ® Cockpit - General Foreign Trade Processing. The system defaults to the Operative Cockpit tab. Click on the Strategic Cockpit tab for the journal report tasks.

Procedure

As an example, we will describe how to list all import purchase orders processed during the past month. As in the Operative Cockpit, you can also define variants for use in the Strategic Cockpit. For this procedure, no variant is used. 

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       1.      Under Import Journal, choose  next to the empty Plan field.

The system displays the selection criteria screen.

       2.      Enter the country of departure, the vendor (optional), the plant and/or movement type and a posting date range that reflects the past month (for example, from 1 to 31 March).

Choose Execute.

The system displays the documents selected in a list.

From this list, you can execute several additional functions for the documents displayed:

       3.      To save the information to your hard drive, choose List ® Export ® Local file.

       4.      To display the sum of the statistical value of the items listed, position the cursor on Stat. value in the header row and choose .

       5.      To display the address and other information about a vendor, position the cursor on the vendor's name and choose .

       6.      To display a graphic for an analysis of the documents listed, choose .

The system displays a dialog box from which you can select parameters for the graphic display. A sample graphic for import purchase orders is shown below.

Tips and Tricks

·        To display all documents received from a particular vendor during the past month, enter only the vendor's name and the document date range in the selection criteria screen.

·        To display documents received from all countries, enter AA to ZZ in the Country field of the selection criteria screen.