SAP MM: Working With Distributed Contracts using SAP MM Outline Purchase Agreements With Vendors

Use

This section explains how to create a contract in the central system and a contract release order in a local system, and how to display the information in the release (order) documentation.

Integration

The procedures correspond to those for the standard contract.

Features

Creating a Contract in the Central System

Proceed as described in the section Creating a Contract Manually.
Note that you must enter an agreement type for distributed contracts (e.g. VK). Enter the company code and the responsible purchasing organization.

Maintaining Plant Conditions for Centrally Agreed Contracts

You can store different prices and conditions for individual plants. To do so, proceed as follows:

Choose Edit

Plant conditions

Overview

Enter the plants for which you wish to maintain special prices.

Press

ENTER

Enter the prices that are valid for each plant.

Creating a Release Order Against a Distributed Contract in a Local System

Proceed as described in the section Creating a Contract Release Order.

In order for a contract from a central system to be made available to a local system, the company code and the purchasing organization must be created in the local system just as in the central system.

The material and vendor master data must likewise be identically maintained.

For different plants of a certain company code to issue release orders against the contract, the assignments of plants to purchasing organizations and between different purchasing organizations must be set up appropriately.

Displaying Release Order Documentation

Proceed as described in the section Displaying the Release Documentation for a Contract.

In the release order documentation stored in the local system, you see the release orders issued against the contract in the relevant local system, showing the item number, PO date, order quantity, and order value. Below this, there is a line with the value released (via release orders) to date, the target quantity of the contract, and the quantity still open.

The release order documentation stored in the central system lists all release orders issued in all local systems. The Pos are sorted by company code and plant.
A totals line for each company code summarizes the cumulative order values and quantities for all plants belonging to the company code.
The last totals line shows the total quantity released via release orders to date and the total value at client level, that is, for all company codes, as well as the target quantity and the quantity still open.