Customs Tariff Preference Data in the Material Master
Description
As of Release 3.0E, you can no longer maintain the preference fields at plant level for the material. The fields concerned are as follows:
- preference indicator
- vendor declaration indicator
- vendor declaration date
Instead, you now maintain the fields per customs area for the plant material.
At plant level, the system displays only whether the preference status or vendor status is OK or not.
To allow your systems administrator to assign the authorization to maintain and display customs tariff preference data in a material master record more specifically, the authorization object Material master: customs tariff preference data (technical name: M_MATE_MZP) has been created together with the authorization fields action and plant.
Change system parameters in customizing
Using the Customizing function Assign fields to field
groups, you can determine whether, when creating a material
using a reference material, the customs tariff preference data of the
reference material is to be copied. You do this using field
RM03M-DMAPE.
Proceed .
Changes to the interface
As part of this enhancement, the subscreen containing the preference data (on the "Purchasing" screen and "Sales: General/Plant Data" screen in the standard SAP R/3 System) has been rearranged. It now contains the pushbutton Customs tariff preference data .
After clicking this button, a dialog box appears in which you can maintain the preference indicator (together with date) and the vendor declaration indicator (together with date) for each customs area assigned to the plant country of the material.
If you do not specify the preference indicator or vendor declaration indicator, they are given the value A (= not checked) as standard.
On the Preference subscreen, the system displays whether the preference status is OK or not. The preference status is not OK if a negative preference indicator (A, D, or E) has been specified for at least one customs area.
Here, the system also displays whether the vendor declaration status is OK or not. The vendor declaration status is not OK if a negative vendor declaration indicator (A or D) has been specified for at least one customs area.