Creating a Central Outline Agreement 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Outline Agreement ® Contract ® Create

    Transaction Code

    ME31K

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Germany

    Great Britain

    Vendor

    1003

    1003

    Agreement type

    MK

    MK

    Agreement date

    Today’s date

    Today’s date

    Purch. organization

    1

    1

    Purchasing group

    001

    001

    Plant

    No entry

    No entry

  3. Choose .

    4. If the Enter Company Code dialog box appears, enter 1000 for IDES AG Deutschland or 2000 for IDES UK and choose .

    The company code determines the reference currency for the agreement price. You can now reference the outline agreement from the various company codes.

  4. Enter the following data:
    5.

    Field

    Germany

    Great Britain

    Validity start

    Today’s date

    Today’s date

    Validity end

    Today’s date + 1 month

    Today’s date + 1 month

    The terms of delivery and terms of payment are adopted from the vendor master record. If required, you can change these data.

    You can also supplement the reference data.

  5. Choose .
  6. Enter the following data:
    7.

    Field

    Germany

    Great Britain

    Material

    1300-340

    1300-340

    Target quantity

    10000

    10000

  7. Choose .

    8. If the Funds Assignment for Item XXX dialog box appears, enter the value 9993 . Choose .

    If a net price is requested, enter any price. Otherwise, the amount is taken from the info record. The other information is copied from the material master record.

  8. Select your item.
  9. Choose .

    10. The system displays the info record. If necessary, you can change the price.

    The first line shows the gross price (PB00) from the info record. You can enter additional condition types in the empty section below the condition types. To display all of the available condition types, choose the F4 input help. If you select a condition type and choose Copy, the system copies the condition type into the condition scheme. In the Rate field, enter any value. Confirm your entries. The conditions that you have entered here centrally will be adopted later in all local contract release orders.

  10. Choose .

    11. If you have selected a condition type, you can see that the system has adjusted the net price to meet the new condition.

  11. Choose .

    12. To skip any warning messages, choose .

    If the Save Document dialog box appears, choose Yes.

    The system confirms the posting and assigns a document number. Make a note of this number.

  12. Choose until the overview tree appears.