Use

Foreign Trade's Cockpit for Periodic Declarations is designed to provide you with a quick, easy-to-use overview of the most important functions in the area of declarations to the customs authorities.

To go to the Cockpit for Periodic Declarations from the SAP main menu, choose  Logistics Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management) Foreign Trade/Customs Periodic Declarations Cockpit – Periodic Declarations .

Prerequisites

Before using the function for Special Regulations (see below), you need to set up the corresponding tables in Customizing as follows:

Choose  Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management Purchasing) Foreign Trade/Customs Periodic Declarations

Features

There are five sections in the Cockpit for Periodic Declarations:

These sections are described in more detail below:

Additionally, there is a text area or picture container on the initial screen for Periodic Declarations . In this area, you can display either a picture or a text. You can include the standard picture or text in this screen from Customizing or by choosing  Environment Maintain user data from the initial screen. The standard picture is SD_FT_GOV_START. You can create a standard text for display in this area by choosing  Tools Form print SAPscript Standard text from the SAP standard menu.

Operations

Create Periodic Declarations

For creating periodic declarations, the user interface presents several processes associated with customs declarations on a single screen. For example, if you select INTRASTAT declaration for France, the following easy-to-use options are available for inbound and dispatched goods:

You can select each of these options with a configurable variant or execute all steps with a variant. Options that are not available for selected countries (such as creating a diskette) are suppressed when you select the respective country.

From the display lists, you can view and modify incomplete document items in SD billing documents (see Data Selection for Declarations ) or MM purchase orders without leaving the transaction screen.

Individual maintenance

The individual maintenance tasks enable you to display and maintain data relevant to INTRASTAT and EXTRASTAT declarations. For example, you can retrieve declarations and modify the data before sending it to the customs authorities. (See Add and Change Entries .)

Archiving INTRASTAT/EXTRASTAT

Archiving functions enable you to archive INTRASTAT and EXTRASTAT records, delete them, and if required, reload them back into the worklists.

Monitoring

In this section, you can display and update foreign trade data in material master records.

Goods Catalog

In this section you can create and display goods catalogs on paper or on disk for submission to the authorities. See Goods Catalog .

Settings

This section contains two customizing wizards that allow you to follow step-by-step procedures that ensure that your settings in Customizing are correctly maintained. You use these wizards to configure customizing tables for

Additional Declaration Germany

Foreign trade activity involving mineral oil products in Germany requires an additional declaration. Here you can create the form for the mineral oil declaration.

Additional Information

For reporting purposes, you can use the ABAP List Viewer for several standard functions, such as sorting or filtering items displayed on your screen.

Activities

To ensure efficient processing of foreign trade data for functions that are repetitive in nature, you can create variants and save them in the system. See Using Variants .