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Procedure documentation Creating an Outl. Agmt. by Copying or Referencing Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

You can save time and effort when creating or changing an outline agreement by copying an already existing one or adopting items from an existing requisition or RFQ.
When creating a scheduling agreement, you can reference a contract (see
Scheduling Agreement Referencing a Centrally Agreed Contract.)

Prerequisites

Before creating an outline purchase agreement using the referencing technique, you must consider the following:

Procedure

In the following example, a contract is created by referencing an already existing RFQ.

  1. Choose Outline agreement ® Contract ® Create.
  2. The initial screen appears.

  3. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Reference to RFQ.
  4. In the dialog box which now appears, enter the number of the RFQ. If you wish to adopt certain items only, you can enter these.
  5. Press ENTER.
  6. The header data screen appears.

  7. Enter the validity period and the target value of the contract (mandatory for value contracts).
  8. Press ENTER.
  9. The item overview screen appears.

  10. Select items to be copied and then adopt them from the RFQ.
  11. – If you wish to change the selected items before adopting them, choose Edit ® Adopt + details. Change the individual items on the item detail screen.

    – If you wish to adopt the selected items without first changing them, choose Edit ® Adopt.

    The item overview of the contract being created appears (with the items adopted as described above).

  12. Enter additional items as required.
  13. Click This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to save the contract.

Result

The contract is created in the SAP System. In order that the information in the contract can be transmitted to the vendor, the system generates a message for the contract. How to transmit the message to the vendor is described under Outputting Messages.

 

 

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