The General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit has several functions that enable you to monitor and update foreign trade data in export and import documents, system master records and settings in the Implementation Guide.

To go to the General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit from the SAP main menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management) ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® General Foreign Trade Processing ® Cockpit -General Foreign Trade Processing.

For most activities in the General Foreign Trade Processing Cockpit, the system can generate incompletion worklists that display the status of each document or record individually using a green, yellow or red traffic signal. The incompletion worklists display all documents or records responding to the selection criteria and indicate whether foreign trade data is complete (green signal) in the selected documents.

From these worklists, you can directly access documents that need to be changed and enter the necessary data. You can also activate incompletion worklists to display only records that need to be processed.

There are six sections on the initial screen of the cockpit:

On the initial screen, there is an additional area that you can fill with a picture or text. You can include the standard picture or a text in this screen by choosing Environment ® Maintain user data from the initial screen. The standard picture is SD_FT_PRO_START. You can create a standard text for display in this section by choosing Tools ® Form print ® SAPscript ® Standard text from the SAP standard menu.

You use the Operative Cockpit to view and update documents on a regular basis. For example, you use it to perform tasks that are included in your daily workload.

With this task, you can select import documents (purchase orders and goods receipts) and export documents (deliveries and invoices). You use variants to limit the documents selected.

The Strategic Cockpit provides Journal tasks that you can use to list activities that have already taken place, for example, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. It provides access to import and export data to create periodic activity statements.

An important feature of the Strategic Cockpit is the effective use of the general list viewer. With the general list viewer, you can display and sort foreign trade activities, for example, according to

• Vendors
• Customs procedures (for example, inward or outward processing)
• Value of imports or exports
• Bonded warehouses

The Individual Maintenance tab enables you to view and maintain individual import and export documents. For example, a user with a list of delivery numbers could enter them individually to check the foreign trade data for completeness and accuracy. These tasks also include an extensive search function.

You can use tasks in the Master data section as a link to check or modify a single master record, for example, to see whether the foreign trade data has been maintained for a particular material.

Tasks in the Environment section are linked to the Implementation Guide (IMG). They allow you to make direct changes in the corresponding IMG tables.

This function is integrated with SD and MM for the maintenance of import and export documents.

Before this function can display the incompletion lists properly, you need to set up the corresponding tables in Customizing.

To define the incompletion procedures that you want to use at the header or item level, choose Sales and Distribution ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents ® Incompleteness Schemas for Foreign Trade Data.

To assign the relevant incompletion procedure to the import and export country, choose Sales and Distribution ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents ® Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents. This is also the table where you set the flag "Save Incompletion Log".