Association
Management 
Purpose
Association Management is the function used to monitor and process document item links for an assigned portfolio.
The main purposes of association management are to:
· Create/maintain a document item link
· Update data relating to open quantities.
The following chart shows you an example of an item position and its transition.
Features
· Creating/maintaining a document item link
The system searches for the corresponding association partner list, based on the assigned portfolio. You can use the same portfolio to create new associations between items.
You can maintain associations in both a trading contract and a logistics document.
In a trading contract you can call the association function either manually or automatically.
In a logistics document you cannot call the association directly from the document. You can maintain an association either separately using the Trading Execution Workbench or using further inheritance to create a logistics document or using automatic adjustment of the association when changing the logistics document.
For more information, see Association Maintenance
Updating open quantity information
Once a portfolio is assigned to a contract item, the system checks the item position and authorizes processing of the item and its associated quantity. For more information, see Status Control and Release Check.
See also:
Processing Associations in a Trading Contract
Processing Associations in the Trading Execution Workbench