Commitment Plan for Purchase Contracts

Use

You can use the commitment plan to preplan value consumption on purchase contracts.

Integration

You need to have Funds Management (FM) and Materials Management (MM) installed, configured, and active.

Prerequisites

Some customizing is required. See the Activities section below.

Activities

To carry out the required customizing, proceed as follows:

  1. Make the necessary customizing settings in the FM Implementation Guide (IMG). To do this, go to the FM IMG and choose Start of the navigation path Actual and Commitment Update/Integration Next navigation step Integration Next navigation step Integration Contracts End of the navigation path . Then follow the instructions given in the IMG documentation.

  2. Activate the commitment plan in Purchasing. To do this, go to the MM IMG and choose Start of the navigation path Purchasing Next navigation step Contract Next navigation step Define Screen Layout at Document Level End of the navigation path .

  3. Choose the relevant contract(s) and define plan fields as you would the other purchase fields.

Result

  • A commitment plan is generated for each document item in the relevant contract. Each document item can itself have any number of items.

  • You can define a value and validity date for each commitment plan item. The system generates an earmarked funds document for a define commitment plan item. The earmarked funds document can, in turn, contain several different items with different account assignments.

  • If a purchase requisition or purchase order references this contract, the earmarked funds document is copied to the purchase order and the account assignment is adopted from that document. Account assignment to a different account assignment object is then no longer allowed.