Use

The General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit has several functions that enable you to monitor and update foreign trade data in export and import documents, system master records and settings in the Implementation Guide.

To go to the General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit from the SAP main menu, choose  Logistics Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management) Foreign Trade/Customs General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit -General Foreign Trade Processing.

Completion Checks – The Basis of the Foreign Trade Cockpit

For most activities in the General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit , the system can generate incompletion worklists that display the status of each document or record individually using a green, yellow or red traffic signal. The incompletion worklists display all documents or records responding to the selection criteria and indicate whether foreign trade data is complete (green signal) in the selected documents.

From these worklists, you can directly access documents that need to be changed and enter the necessary data. You can also activate incompletion worklists to display only records that need to be processed.

Features

The Initial Screen – General Foreign Trade Processing

There are six sections on the initial screen of the cockpit:

On the initial screen, there is an additional area that you can fill with a picture or text. You can include the standard picture or a text in this screen by choosing  Environment Maintain user data from the initial screen. The standard picture is SD_FT_PRO_START. You can create a standard text for display in this section by choosing  Tools Form print SAPscript Standard text from the SAP standard menu .

Operative Cockpit

You use the Operative Cockpit to view and update documents on a regular basis. For example, you use it to perform tasks that are included in your daily workload .

With this task, you can select import documents (purchase orders and goods receipts) and export documents (deliveries and invoices). You use variants to limit the documents selected.

Strategic Cockpit

The Strategic Cockpit provides Journal tasks that you can use to list activities that have already taken place, for example, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. It provides access to import and export data to create periodic activity statements.

An important feature of the Strategic Cockpit is the effective use of the general list viewer. With the general list viewer, you can display and sort foreign trade activities, for example, according to

See also:

Using the Foreign Trade Import/Export Journals

Individual Maintenance

The Individual Maintenance tab enables you to view and maintain individual import and export documents. For example, a user with a list of delivery numbers could enter them individually to check the foreign trade data for completeness and accuracy. These tasks also include an extensive search function.

Controlling (of master data)

With the Controlling tasks, you can monitor whether foreign trade data is complete in master records and generate a list of records with missing data. See Foreign Trade Data Check in Master Records .

You can also maintain foreign trade data in these records using the normal system menus. See Foreign Trade Data in Master Records .

Master data (maintenance)

You can use tasks in the Master data section as a link to check or modify a single master record, for example, to see whether the foreign trade data has been maintained for a particular material.

Environment (IMG links)

Tasks in the Environment section are linked to the Implementation Guide (IMG). They allow you to make direct changes in the corresponding IMG tables.

Integration

This function is integrated with SD and MM for the maintenance of import and export documents.

Prerequisites

Before this function can display the incompletion lists properly, you need to set up the corresponding tables in Customizing .

To define the incompletion procedures that you want to use at the header or item level, choose  Sales and Distribution Foreign Trade/Customs Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents Incompleteness Schemas for Foreign Trade Data .

To assign the relevant incompletion procedure to the import and export country, choose  Sales and Distribution Foreign Trade/Customs Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents . This is also the table where you set the flag "Save Incompletion Log".