Master Conditions for Services (SAP Library - External Services Management (MM-SRV))

Master Conditions for Services

Definition

Terms of payment (prices, discounts, surcharges etc.) for external services, valid over a longer timeframe.

Use

The system applies these conditions for price determination purposes in purchasing documents. You can enter further conditions in the purchasing document itself.

For more information on the maintenance of conditions for services, refer to Condition Maintenance for Services.

You make the settings for price determination in Customizing for External Services Management under Maintain Conditions for Services.

The process of source determination in purchase orders and requisitions for external services takes place on the basis of contracts and service master conditions.

You make the settings for source determination in Customizing for External Services Management under Source Determination and Default Values.

Structure

You can store master conditions for services in the system as follows:

In the form of service master conditions (Logistics ® Materials management ® Service ® Service conditions):

For a service ("market price"/"own estimate")
For a service and a vendor without a plant
For a service and a vendor with a plant
For other objects

If you need your own key combinations for conditions, you must create your own condition tables and define the access sequence.

You make the settings in Customizing for External Services Management under Maintain Conditions for Services.

In the form of contract conditions

Recommendation

We recommend maintaining the conditions for a Contract directly within the document.

In the case of master conditions for services, you can additionally enter the following:

Validity periods
Scales
Supplementary conditions