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Function documentationInbound Interface for Contract Information

 

With this interface, you can import the following data for a quantity or value contract to SAP F&R:

  • Contract number in the purchasing system (such as a connected SAP Retail system)

  • Product (this must be known in SAP F&R)

  • Product-related target quantity (including unit of measure) or target value

  • Released quantity (including unit of measure) or released value

  • Start and end of the contract validity period

  • Vendor (must be known in SAP F&R)

  • Target location (this can also be empty)

  • Overbooking indicator

    Specifies if exceeding the contract limit (target value or target quantity) is allowed.

  • Variant indicator

    Specifies if the product in the SAP Retail system corresponds to the variant of a generic article and if the contract has been created in the SAP Retail system at the level of the generic article. On transfer to SAP F&R, the SAP Retail system breaks down a contract for generic articles into contracts for replenishment-planning-relevant variants of the generic articles. SAP F&R holds contract information for these variants at product level.

  • Purchasing organization and the relevance indicator for the purchasing organization

    The latter specifies if the system has to take the purchasing organization into account in contract determination. If this indicator is set, the system does not allow assignment of a contract where the purchasing organization differs from that in the order item.

For more information on the technical procedure (use of buffer tables for the imported data) when transferring the contract data, see Interface Processing.

Integration

Note Note

You can supply this interface from an SAP Retail system or from a different purchasing system.

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  • Contract data transmitted by a purchasing system that does not meet certain minimum requirements (for example, because the vendor is missing or the product is not known in SAP F&R) is rejected as invalid by SAP F&R. You can display data that the system could not post in the interface workbench.

  • After deleting contract assignments for order items in the SAP Retail system, SAP F&R uses an import of changed order information (delta data transfer) to automatically update the contract number assignment in the order proposal items.

  • Using a Business Add-In (BAdI) (/FRE/IF_CON_BADI_027), you can enrich or change the imported contract data specifically for the customer. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Forecasting and Replenishment under Start of the navigation path Interfaces Next navigation step Enhancements Using Business Add-Ins Next navigation step BAdI: Inbound Contracts End of the navigation path.

Prerequisites

  • Before call-up of the F&R Interface Processing, you have imported contract data from a purchasing system.

  • You carry out interface processing (report /FRE/BIF_INB01) and set the indicator for contracts under selections for source location / target location.

Features

Following the import of contract information, the system can determine contracts when creating a new order proposal item or changing an existing one.

For more information, see Using Contract Information in Order Proposal Items.

Activities

  1. The integrated sending system starts the transfer and calls appropriate function module for the interface in SAP F&R. For more information, see the Overview of the Interfaces in SAP F&R.

  2. You then post the data in SAP F&R.