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Function documentationContract Optionalities

 

Optionally, you can maintain additional logistics options along with the discounts or premiums to be applied for those options. For example, you can specify a premium for a particular discharge location or a particular mode of transport. These additional logistics options are called optionalities.

Prerequisites

You have configured the optionality categories in Customizing for Logistics - General under Start of the navigation path Global Trade Management Next navigation step Agricultural Contract Management Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Optionality Next navigation step Maintain Optionality Customizing End of the navigation path.

Features

  • Optionality Categories

    The solution is delivered with a set of predefined optionality categories. For example, these categories include Discharge Location, Incoterms, Mode of Transport, and Means of Transport.

  • Optionality Types

    The Optionality Type determines how the system evaluates the optionalities during call-off, load data capture, and contract application. The following options are provided:

    • Explicit

      Explicit optionalities require a quantity to be declared before contract application is permitted for the quantity. This means that call-off must occur and values must be entered for the optionality categories. The contract cannot be applied to any load without a call-off.

    • Implicit

      Call-off is not required for implicit optionalities. However, contract application must match one of the defined optionalities for all categories where a value has been captured for the load (if no value is captured for the load, the category is ignored for matching purposes). Therefore, the contract can be applied to any load for which the optionality values entered in load data capture match the optionality values defined in the contract.

    • Any

      If you define optionalities as any, the contract can be applied to any load irrespective of the optionality values entered. However, for settlement, if a category value matches the load, the system applies the relevant premium or discount.

Activities

You define optionalities on the Additional Contract Conditions tab page for a commodity item.

Optionally, you can specify default values for the Mode of Transport, Means of Transport, Crop Season ID, and Source Location. Then, you enter further optionalities in the Additional Optionality Values screen area. You define each optionality by entering the following information:

  • Optionality Category

  • Value Type

  • Option Value

  • Premium or Discount Details

For step-by-step instructions for entering optionalities, see Entering Optionalities.