Maintenance of Contract Data - SAP Documentation

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Sales, you control whether contract data can be maintained for a particular sales document type by entering either X or Y in the Contract data allwd field in the activity ‘ Define sales document types’.

Use

You can maintain the following contract data:

Validity period data
Cancellation data

Similar to business data, contract data is stored in both the header and in the contract items. Header data applies to all items in a contract until you change data in the individual items.

The following graphic illustrates the data in a service contract:

Features

If contract item data differs from contract header data, you can control how changes to the contract header data should affect the contract item data. You do this by entering an indicator in the Contract data allwd. field in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under Start of the navigation path Sales Next navigation step Sales Documents Sales Document Header Define Sales Document Types End of the navigation path in the Contract section.

The following indicators are possible:

Indicators in Contract data allwd. field: field:

Indicator	Any changes you make to the contract header…
x	… will not be copied into the items. This applies even if the contract item data was identical to the contract header data before you made the changes to the header data.
y	… are automatically copied into the items if the contract item data was identical to the contract header data before you made the changes.

For more information, see the online help for the Contract data allwd. field.