Configuration in Trading Contracts

 

This function provides you with single-level configuration in sales-side, purchasing-side, and two-sided trading contracts when you are working with configurable materials.

Single-level configuration allows you to configure the material for a trading contract item, but not the components of a bill of material (BOM). It is not possible to trigger a BOM using the configuration.

Prerequisites

You have defined how the trading contract item can be configured for the item category in Customizing for Global Trade Management under Start of the navigation path Trading Contract Next navigation step Configuration Next navigation step Make Configuration Settings for Trading Contracts End of the navigation path.

Data that is determined using dependencies cannot, generally, be changed again subsequently. If you want to allow data changes, you must make the relevant settings in Customizing for Global Trade Management under Start of the navigation path Trading Contract Next navigation step Configuration Next navigation step Define Changeability of Fields End of the navigation path.

Features

You can configure materials in the following trading contracts:

  • Purchasing-side trading contract

    You can enter a purchasing configuration for a purchasing-side contract.

  • Sales-side trading contract

    You can enter a sales configuration for a sales-side contract.

  • Two-sided trading contract

    You can enter a purchasing and a sales configuration for a two-sided trading contract.

    The system initially creates a sales configuration for an item. At this stage, the purchasing configuration simply references the sales configuration. If you require different purchasing and sales configurations, you can enter an independent purchasing configuration in addition to the sales configuration.

You can view messages about inconsistent configurations in the completeness log on the tab page Status.

When the system releases a trading contract, it automatically creates follow-on documents. Depending on the type of trading contract, this can be either a purchase order or a sales order, or both. When the system creates these follow-on documents, it also copies the configuration from the trading contract into the follow-on documents.

If an independent purchasing configuration exists in the trading contract, the purchase order configuration is also independent of the sales order configuration. If not, the purchase order configuration references the sales order configuration.

Note Note

The follow-on document configuration cannot be changed directly, so you must change it in the trading contract. The changed data is then transferred to the follow-on documents.

End of the note.
Material Variant

If you are using material variants in trading contracts, you should take the following special features into account:

  • Item category allows configuration

    If the item category allows configuration, the system copies the configuration from the material master for the material variant. You can change the configuration in the trading contract.

  • Item category does not allow configuration

    If the item category does not allow configuration, the system references the configuration in the material master for the material variant. The system displays and reads the material variant configuration, but does not allow any changes.

Pricing

The system reads the variant conditions in pricing for a trading contract. For the purchasing configuration, the system employs the MM variant conditions using an object characteristic referenced to the field MMCOM-VKOND, and for the sales configuration it employs the SD variant conditions using an object characteristic referenced to the field SDCOM-VKOND.

Copying Trading Contracts

If you are copying a trading contract with configured items, the system copies the relevant purchasing and sales configurations.

Activities

You reach the characteristic value assignment screen for the purchasing or sales configuration of a trading contract from the item overview screen by selecting SD (SD) (Sales Configuration) and MM (MM) (Purchasing Configuration).