Master Agreement (SAP Library

Master Agreement

Definition

You can define master agreements in the system, which can be used to define standards for a specific company for concluding money market transactions. A master agreement is used to specify agreements and conditions by which individual transactions in the master agreement must abide.

Use

You can assign a transaction to a master agreement when you create the transaction or subsequently. The system checks that the transaction data and the master agreement data conform. You can call up the volume utilization of a master agreement at any time. You can assign single transactions to an existing master agreement as soon as you create them. As you do this, the system checks the master conditions defined previously.

For example, the nominal amount of the transaction must not exceed the upper limit of the corresponding currency defined in the master agreement. Provided that transactions in this currency are only restricted to the upper limit of the leading currency defined in the master agreement, the nominal amount of the transaction is translated to the leading currency and checked against this upper limit.

You can check the total utilization of master agreements directly using report program Volume Utilization.

You can also assign a transaction to a master agreement at a later date.

You can enter memos for master agreements. If you want to structure the memos, you can define memo IDs in Customizing, which you can use to store each memo.

Read the following units: Define Number Ranges and Define Master Agreement Types in the IMG.

Structure

A master agreement contains the following entries:

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Features

By choosing Master Data ® Master Agreement, you can

create a master agreement (including entries for the company code, business partner, term, minimum and maximum transaction volume per currency),

display the data,

change the master agreement,

assign a transaction to a master agreement as soon as you create the transaction or subsequently when checking the extent to which the master agreement conditions are met,

evaluate the utilization of the total volume of master agreements using the assigned transactions (see also Master Agreement: Volume Utilization),

display changes (see also Master Agreement: Changes).

Example Example: Master agreement for product category Commercial Paper:

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