Foreign Trade's Legal Control Cockpit is designed to provide you with a quick, easy-to-use overview of the most important functions in the area of Legal Control. These functions assist you in checking your business transactions for compliance with several foreign trade laws and regulations (for example, the export of weapons-related products).

To go to the Legal Control Cockpit from the SAP main menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and distribution (or Materials management) ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Prohibitions and Restrictions ® Cockpit – Legal Control.

Before using the functions for Legal Control, you need to make several settings in Customizing. To do this, choose Sales and Distribution ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Legal Control in Customizing and make the appropriate settings in the associated menu topics.

You can configure the initial screen of the Legal Control Cockpit to match the specific tasks of each individual user so that the same screen setup always appears when a particular user enters the Cockpit.

There are seven sections on the initial screen of the Legal Control Cockpit:

These sections are described in more detail below:

Additionally, there is a text area or picture container on the initial screen for Legal Control. 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_CON_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.

This section assists you in managing license master records. Here, you can create, display or modify license master records. You limit the display of license master records by selecting them according to control criteria, such as license type, license number and external number, or according to criteria that you have defined in a variant. Depending on the criteria you enter, the system displays several licenses at once in a tree structure on the left side of the screen that you can access without leaving this transaction.

You use this section to assign export licenses to export documents if this was not already done when the sales orders were created. You can also manually release previously blocked sales orders in this section.

Alert reporting functions allow you to display lists of

• Blocked sales documents and deliveries
• Available licenses
• Assigned documents

You can modify these documents directly from the display lists.

In this section you can check material master records and customer master records for completeness and modify or add necessary data related to legal control in these records.

In this section you can check whether you can carry out a planned transaction or determine whether you might encounter problems during export.

For example, here you can find out whether

• You need an export license
• A potential customer is on a boycott list
• A potential customer lives in a country currently under embargo

You can check whether your Customizing settings are correctly maintained in this section.

For most of the lists displayed from the Legal Control Cockpit, you can modify data, display logs or obtain further information by double-clicking the mouse on an item. Generally, you can double-click on data displayed in each successive screen until you have reached the most detailed level of information.