Display Contract Standing - SAP Documentation

Use

This function allows you to display the contract standing.

Integration

It is part of Sales and is available to you in the Contract menu as follows:

Function	Screen	Menu path
Display or change contracts	Business data	Goto Contract standing
Monitor contracts	Initial screen	Environment Contract standing

Prerequisites

You want to display the standing of a contract to check whether a media customer has sold the agreed number of advertising services within the defined period.

Note Note

If you have not deactivated the standard update in dialog, the system always displays the current standing for the assignments here. (The Standing was updated message is displayed as appropriate).

Please note that the system displays the current contract standing.

If a contract was blocked during order entry, the system was able to assign billing datasets for this order to the respective contract item but did not update assignments in the database. You must calculate the contract standing again.

The system only displays contract assignments that are relevant to update in the contract standing:

End of the note.

If you have selected the Relevant to contract and Update indicators in Customizing, a billing dataset can be assigned to a contract and updated in the contract standing. This means that the billing dataset can be granted discount conditions, can contribute towards contract fulfillment and settlement can be performed.
If you have selected the Relevant to contract indicator but have not selected the Update indicator in Customizing, a billing dataset cannot be assigned to a contract and updated in the contract standing. This means that the billing dataset can be granted discount conditions, but cannot contribute towards contract fulfillment and settlement cannot be performed.

If you create an offer item, you usually want to grant discount conditions on this item but it is not to contribute towards contract fulfillment and settlement is not to be performed.

You define item categories as follows in Customizing:

Define	Menu path
Item categories	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Order Sales Documents Sales Document Item Definition of Item Categories

Caution Caution

You define the way in which contract assignments are updated in the contract standing when you define item categories and positioning factors in Customizing:

End of the caution.

The system updates number and quantity with negative leading signs or zero in the contract standing if the relevant settings have been made in Customizing. If you have created a correction item for full credit memos, you usually want to update number and quantity with negative leading signs in the contract standing. If you have created a correction item for partial credit memos, you usually want to update number with zero in the contract standing.
The system also determines the positioning factors in addition to the leading signs when updating the number and quantity. If you have specified in Customizing that the positioning factor for number in a particular booking unit is 2, the system evaluates each ad placed in this booking unit as 2 ads.

You define positioning factors as follows in Customizing:

Define	Menu path
Positioning factors	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract Contract Determination and Update Definition of Positioning Factors for Contract Update

You have created contracts, entered orders and made all the relevant settings in Customizing:

Define	Menu path
Total types	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract Client-Specific Settings Selection of Total Types for Contract Standing
Contract assignments that count for each total type	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract Settings for Specific Sales Areas Make General Settings Contract standing tab page
Settlement amounts drilldown	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract Client-Specific Settings Breakdown of Settlement Amounts

Features

You can display the following views of the contract standing:

View	Use
Standard view	You want to display the number, quantity and sales volume for each total type with which the total type counts towards contract fulfillment. Twelve total types are supplied in the reference clients. The total types supplied include a total type for contract assignments that qualify for discount and one for contract assignments that qualify for bonus. You define which contract assignments are included when calculating number, quantity and sales volume and which fields and texts are displayed for each total type in Customizing when you define the total types.
Group view	You want to display the number, quantity and sales volume for each group subsidiary with which they contribute towards contract fulfillment.
Advertiser view	You want to display the number, quantity and sales volume for each advertiser with which they contribute towards contract fulfillment. The system displays whether an order has been obtained via an agency or through the services of a media sales agent for each advertiser.
Contract values	You want to display target agreement, percentage fulfillment, agreed discount conditions and discount conditions forecast using the fulfillment level.

The system displays advertising services sold categorized by sold and billed advertising services in the standard, group and advertiser view. You define whether the totals values are based on the billed billing datasets or the billed and not billed billing datasets as follows in Customizing:

Define	Indicator	Menu path
Billing datasets that are based on the totals value for a total type.	Include billed orders with orders accepted	SAP Media Advertising Management Sales Contract Settings for Specific Sales Areas Make General Settings Contract standing tab page

Calculate sales volumes

You can display the conditions and condition values used to calculate sales volume for a total type on the conditions detail screen. The system displays active and inactive condition types with the associated condition values on this screen. If you choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Conditions End of the navigation path in the contract standing, the price detail screen appears. This screen is accessed as a detail screen during pricing in the Advertising Management component.

You can also display a conditions breakdown that displays the purchase conditions and condition values for each total type as an alternative to the conditions detail screen. You have defined the purchase conditions and condition values that are displayed in the conditions breakdown in Customizing when you defined the settlement amounts. When assigning condition types to purchase conditions you can combine several condition types in a purchase condition, for example all discounts and bonuses in a purchase condition for discounts. If you choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Conditions drilldown End of the navigation path in the contract standing, the conditions breakdown appears.