You use this process to create and maintain an extended contract for an existing sales document. You do this in order to maintain and track additional information that is not available as part of standard sales order processing, as well as touse advanced order processing and billing functions, such as alternative document billing structures, ITD billing, and fund assignment.
The
sales document type
CBWV
(contract) exists and has been activated for
Advanced Order Processing and Billing
. You can check this in Customizing for
Sales
by choosing
.
The item category
CBVN
(contract item) exists and has been assigned as the default item category for document type
CBWV
. You can check this in Customizing for
Sales
by choosing
and
Assign Item Categories
.
You have created and configured the
status profile
CB000001
in Customizing for
Sales
by choosing
. You can copy it from the SAP Reference IMG in client 000.
This profile has the
user statuses
Blocked
(
BLOC
) and
Released
(
FREE
). When you create a document of the type
CBWV
, it automatically has status
BLOC
. It receives status
FREE
when its extended contract is released (see
Releasing an Extended Contract
). This is in order to ensure that billing cannot be performed before an extended contract has been released.
Note
You must also remove the billing block in the sales document in order to perform billing.
You create an extended contract with reference to an existing sales document (see Creating an Extended Contract ).
You enter the required additional data (see Maintaining Additional Contract Data ).
You release the extended contract (see Releasing an Extended Contract ).