You have the following options:
You maintain time-dependent conditions for info records, RFQs, scheduling agreements, and contracts directly in the info record or purchasing document.
You can also enter document conditions for contracts and info records via the master data menu. SAP recommends maintaining such conditions via the relevant document.
Time-dependent general conditions are always maintained via the master data menu.
Time-independent conditions are always maintained directly within the relevant document.
In addition, you can do the following via the master data menu
Define the market price for a material
The Vendor Evaluation component uses this figure to compute a vendor’s price level.
Maintain condition records for condition types you have created yourself
Change the prices in info records, contracts, or scheduling agreements on a collective basis
How conditions are maintained depends on whether they are time-dependent or time-independent.
The following table shows which conditions can be maintained for which documents.
Time-dependent conditions |
Time-independent conditions |
|
Info record |
Yes |
No |
Quotation |
Depends on document type |
Depends on document type |
Scheduling agreement |
Depends on document type |
Depends on document type |
Contract |
Yes |
No |
Purchase order |
No |
Yes |
You can specify both time-dependent and time-independent conditions at header and item level. The conditions in the info record are an exception: these are stored at info record level.
In the case of time-dependent conditions, you can additionally enter:
Supplementary conditions
Validity periods
Scales
Upper and lower limits