
Cockpit - Periodic Declarations
Use
Foreign Trade's Cockpit for Periodic Declarations is designed to provide you with a quick, easy-to-use overview of the most important functions in the area of declarations to the customs authorities.
To go to the Cockpit for Periodic Declarations from the SAP main menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management) ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Periodic Declarations ® Cockpit – Periodic Declarations.
Prerequisites
Before using the function for Special Regulations (see below), you need to set up the corresponding tables in Customizing as follows:
Choose Sales and Distribution (or Materials Management ® Purchasing) ® Foreign Trade/Customs ® Periodic Declarations
Features
There are five sections in the Cockpit for Periodic Declarations:
Screen Section |
Function |
Operations |
Create periodic customs declarations Maintain declaration data Perform archiving tasks |
Monitoring |
Display and update foreign trade data in material master records |
Goods catalog |
Create and display goods catalogs |
Settings |
Make relevant settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG) |
Additional Declaration Germany |
Create declaration for foreign trade in Germany involving mineral oil products |
These sections are described in more detail below:
Additionally, there is a text area or picture container on the initial screen for Periodic Declarations. 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_GOV_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.
Operations
Create Periodic Declarations
For creating periodic declarations, the user interface presents several processes associated with customs declarations on a single screen. For example, if you select INTRASTAT declaration for France, the following easy-to-use options are available for inbound and dispatched goods:
You can select each of these options with a configurable variant or execute all steps with a variant. Options that are not available for selected countries (such as creating a diskette) are suppressed when you select the respective country.

Once you execute a step, choose Help ® Application help from the menu bar to display detailed information about each of the reports.
From the display lists, you can view and modify incomplete document items in SD billing documents (see
Data Selection for Declarations) or MM purchase orders without leaving the transaction screen.Individual maintenance
The individual maintenance tasks enable you to display and maintain data relevant to INTRASTAT and EXTRASTAT declarations. For example, you can retrieve declarations and modify the data before sending it to the customs authorities. (See
Add and Change Entries.)Archiving INTRASTAT/EXTRASTAT
Archiving functions enable you to archive INTRASTAT and EXTRASTAT records, delete them, and if required, reload them back into the worklists.
Monitoring
In this section, you can display and update foreign trade data in material master records.
Goods Catalog
In this section you can create and display goods catalogs on paper or on disk for submission to the authorities. See
Goods Catalog.Settings
This section contains two customizing wizards that allow you to follow step-by-step procedures that ensure that your settings in Customizing are correctly maintained. You use these wizards to configure customizing tables for
Additional Declaration Germany
Foreign trade activity involving mineral oil products in Germany requires an additional declaration. Here you can create the form for the mineral oil declaration.
Additional Information
For reporting purposes, you can use the ABAP List Viewer for several standard functions, such as sorting or filtering items displayed on your screen.
Activities
To ensure efficient processing of foreign trade data for functions that are repetitive in nature, you can create variants and save them in the system. See
Using Variants.