Commodity Management Analytics: Free Characteristics in MM

With this feature you can maintain free characteristics in purchase contracts and purchase orders at item level. You define them in the classification system, and can then use them to set up integrated HANA-based position reporting and MtM reporting in SAP TRM based on a book structure:

Free characteristics can be assigned to characteristics in the analysis structure in SAP TRM.
When purchase contracts and purchase orders are created or changed, free characteristics values can be transferred to commodity raw exposures and subsequent reporting structures in SAP TRM.
The same holds for goods receipts that have been created with reference to a purchase order containing free characteristics.
You can set up HANA-based reporting on commodity positions and MtM to evaluate free characteristics values from purchase documents as well as the corresponding characteristic values from the analysis structures as used in derivative contracts in SAP TRM.

For more information, see the following release notes: Free Characteristics in Commodity Risk Management

Technical and Other Details

Technical Name of Product Feature	LOGMMCMM_FREE_CHARACTERISTICS
Product feature is	New
Country Dependency	Valid for all countries
Software Component Version	SAP_APPL 617
Application Component	Commodity Management in Logistics (LO-CMM), Purchasing (MM-PUR)
Availability	SAP Enhancement Package 7 (SP05) for SAP ERP 6.0
Required Business Function(s)	LOG_MM_COMMODITY_04

Existing Data

In purchase contracts, there is a new menu entry for free characteristics. In purchase orders, there is a new pushbutton. It is possible to use default free characteristics values based on document data.

System Administration

To enable the transfer of free characteristics values to SAP TRM reporting, you must perform additional implementation and configuration steps. See Customizing for Financial Supply Chain Management, under Start of the navigation path Treasury and Risk Management Next navigation step Transaction Manager General Settings Exposure Management 2.0 Settings for Free Attributes and Characteristics Settings for Free Characteristics Free Characteristics in Commodity Management End of the navigation path

Customizing

For free characteristics a new class type 59 has been introduced in the classification system. You can define a default class of that type for free characteristics in purchase contracts and purchase orders in Customizing for Logistics - General, under Start of the navigation path Commodity Management Next navigation step Analytics Free Characteristics Define Default Class and Valuation End of the navigation path .