Internal Contract Apportionment Processing

Use

The internal contract apportionmentdistributes the contract budget amongst the delivery periods defined in budget planning. It is the result of the OTB reservationand ensures that sufficient budget is available for the enter length of the contract. In the standard system, the values or quantities are automatically distributed evenly. You can change the way they are distributed using this function.

At the end, the total of all individual values or quantities in the internal contract apportionment must be the same as the quantity (or value) entered in the contractThe contract is only created if you adhere to this rule.

Integration

When you create or change an OTB-relevant contract using transaction ME31K or ME32K , the system automatically creates an internal contract apportionment and opens it automatically when you save so that you can process it.

To call these transactions, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Retailing Next navigation step Purchasing Next navigation step Purchase Order Next navigation step Outline Agreement Next navigation step Contract End of the navigation path

  • Create

  • Change

Business Add-In

You can implement customer-specific values for your internal contract apportionment settings using a BAdI. For example, you can override the equal distribution if you want to distribute the majority of your contract budget to the first delivery periods. This BAdI can be found in Customizing for Seasonal Procurement under Start of the navigation path Open-to-Buy Next navigation step Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins Next navigation step BAdI: Maintain Internal Contract Apportionment End of the navigation path .

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for OTB-Relevant Contracts apply.

You are processing an OTB-relevant contractand have entered and saved the necessary data.

Features

You can process the internal contract apportionment as soon as you have saved a contract (after creating or processing it) or in the Header Data: Contracts application function in the contract monitor. We would like to point out the following functions:

  • You can display header and item data for the internal contract apportionment.

  • You can switch between two views – internal contract apportionment for each item or for each period.

  • You can change values or quantities for the delivery period for each item or for the contract as a whole.

  • You can distribute the values or quantities in the internal contract apportionment items manually or automatically (with support from the system).

  • If you quit internal contract apportionment processing (starting from transactions ME31K and ME32K ) without saving, the system returns to the display or the processing of the standard contract (or to processing the contract monitor if you processed the internal contract apportionment there).

  • In the case of generic articles, you can display the detailed assignment of the variants to the budget.

Activities

  1. To change the internal contract apportionment ( without processing the underlying contract ), choose with the quick info text Intern. Contract Apportionment in the contract monitor in the application function Header Data: Contract s.

    Note Note

    If you want to change the contract as well as the internal apportionment, you can do this by recreating or changing the contract.

    End of the note.
  2. You process the following data:

    • The Quantity Apportioned column in the case of a quantity contract

    • The Value in Internal Contract Apportionment column in the case of a value contract

  3. To move to a different contract item, choose with the quick info text Choose Item .

  4. To clear all distribution fields, choose with the quick info text Initialize Distribution .

  5. To display additional fields with budget information, such as, Planned Budget, Free Contract Budget, Available Budget , choose with the quick info text Additional Budget Data .

  6. To call automatic distribution (according to standard system or BAdI), choose with the quick info text Distribute .

  7. To display the budget assignment for variants of a generic article, place the cursor on a budget number and choose Display Variants in the context menu.

  8. Make sure that the Contract Quantity to Apportion field contains the value 0 in each row at the end of the distribution.

  9. To copy the entries, choose Copy .

    The system saves the OTB-relevant contract.

Example

You are processing a quantity contract item for a single article with a quantity of 1000 and price per unit of USD 10. The system distributes the quantity (and the values) evenly across all delivery periods. You change the distribution of the quantity in the internal contract apportionment rows as follows:

Delivery Period

Previous Quantity

New Quantity

Previous Value

New Value

1

250

500

2500

5000

2

250

200

2500

2000

3

250

200

2500

2000

4

250

100

2500

1000