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Role documentation Process Scheduling Agreements (MM-PUR)  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Technical name: SAP_MM_PUR_SCHEDULEAGREEMENT

Tasks

The activities of this role enable you to maintain the basic data for scheduling agreements.

A scheduling agreement is an outline purchase agreement against which materials or services are procured on predefined dates over a certain period.

The total quantity of a material to be delivered that is specified in an item of a scheduling agreement can be broken down into a series of partial quantities with individual delivery dates, which are set out in the lines of a delivery schedule.

You issue scheduling agreement releases to your vendor to inform him of your forthcoming requirements as at a certain date.

Note

If scheduling agreements whose total value exceeds a certain figure require approval in your company before they can be issued, the role Release Outline Agreements is available for this purpose.

Activities in Materials Management

Activity

Transaction

Create scheduling agreement

ME31L

Create stock transport scheduling agreement

ME37

Change scheduling agreement

ME32L

Display scheduling agreement

ME33L

Maintain scheduling agreement supplement

ME34L

Recalculate scheduling agreement prices

ME3R