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 Extended Contract Maintenance

Purpose

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.

Prerequisites

  • 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 Start of the navigation path Sales Documents Next navigation step Advanced Order Processing and Billing Next navigation step Maintain Order Type End of the navigation path .

  • 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 Start of the navigation path Sales Documents Next navigation step Sales Document Item Next navigation step Define Item Categories End of the navigation path and Assign Item Categories .

  • You have created and configured the status profile CB000001 in Customizing for Sales by choosing Start of the navigation path Sales Documents Next navigation step Advanced Order Processing and Billing Next navigation step Define and Assign Status Profile End of the navigation path . 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 Note

    You must also remove the billing block in the sales document in order to perform billing.

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Process Flow

  1. You create an extended contract with reference to an existing sales document (see Creating an Extended Contract ).

  2. You enter the required additional data (see Maintaining Additional Contract Data ).

  3. You release the extended contract (see Releasing an Extended Contract ).