Technical Name of Business Function |
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Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP Enhancement Package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage | Global Trade |
Application Component |
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Required Business Function |
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Using this business function, you can integrate functions from Global Trade Management
with Commodities:
Contract revaluation
Period-end valuation
Raw exposure update (Treasury and Risk Management
TRM)
Pricing copy to purchasing-side follow-on documents
CPF integration
Logistical options in the trading contract and a contract processing monitor are also available with this business function.
In addition, you can use the following new roles for SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC):
SAP_SR_CMM_GTM
– Commodity Management Processing of Trading Contracts
SAP_SR_CMM_GTM_C
– Commodity Management Processing of Trading Contracts, Purchasing and Sales
For more information about the roles, see Commodity Management Processing of Trading Contracts and Commodity Management Processing of Trading Contracts, Purchasing and Sales.
The following processes must be available and correctly configured:
Standard process for purchasing in SAP ERP
Standard logistics process for inbound delivery in SAP ERP
Standard process for logistics invoice verification in SAP ERP
Standard process for sales in SAP ERP
Standard logistics process for outbound delivery in SAP ERP
Standard process for billing in SAP ERP
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component | Component | Required for the Following Features Only |
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After activating this business function, you make – depending on which function you want to use – Customizing settings under:
Contracts can contain pricing conditions with floating prices. These prices or estimated values change daily and they are uploaded into the system daily, as price changes. You can use the report Revaluation of Logistics Documents
(CMM_LREV)
to carry out new pricing for contracts, to keep the prices up-to-date.
You can use the report Period-End Valuation: Creation of Worklist
(MEV_CREATE_WL)
. It enables you to create a worklist for a specific key date, from goods receipt items and goods issue items for which a final invoice amount does not yet exist, and anticipate the amounts for the final invoice items.
For more information, see Period-End Valuation.
You can trigger the update of a raw exposure for component Treasury and Risk Management
(TRM), from trading contracts and precontracts. The prerequisite for this is the additional activation of business function LOG_TRM_INT_2
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You can use the pricing copy function in purchasing-side follow-on documents.
You model your business process via trading contracts that each use a purchase contract as a direct follow-on document. When you create release orders or stock transport orders with reference to such a purchase contract, you can use Customizing to control whether price information should be copied directly from the trading contract.
The trading contract can contain configurable parameters and formulas (CPF) as conditions. It is thereby integrated into the CPF pricing of components MM and SD. When a trading contract is released, the configurable parameters and formulas are bequeathed to the follow-on documents. The prerequisite for this is the additional activation of business functions LOG_MM_COMMODITY_02
and LOG_SD_COMMODITY_02
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You can keep a record of optional logistical data in a trading contract, until the final logistical data has been defined. This selection option, when available in the trading contract, is described as a “logistical option” (LOPT). This flexibility on contract level enables the following:
Optimization of the logistical planning process
Simplification of the contract process
Avoidance of too narrowly-defined logistical data
For more information, see Logistical Options in the Trading Contract.
You can use the contract processing monitor. It provides you with an overview of all relevant data for a trading contract:
Various views for header and items
Status overview for follow-on documents
Document flow
Furthermore, the monitor provides you with a flexible framework that enables you to integrate user-specific statuses and calculations. You can quickly and easily incorporate additional status information, by using user-defined classes and subscreens.
You can call the contract processing monitor not only as a separate report, but also as a jump from the transactions for displaying or changing a trading contract.
For more information, see the application help for report RWB2_CPM
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By activating and using the content of a business function, databases are filled, process steps are executed, user interfaces are changed, statuses are set, and much more. Therefore, for technical reasons, the activation of this business function in a production system cannot be undone; otherwise irrevocable data inconsistencies could occur in the system.