Maintaining Conditions in SAP MM

Use

You have the following options:

• You maintain time-dependent conditions for info records, RFQs, scheduling agreements, and contracts directly in the info record or purchasing document.
• You can also enter document conditions for contracts and info records via the master data menu. SAP recommends maintaining such conditions via the relevant document.
• Time-dependent general conditions are always maintained via the master data menu.
• Time-independent conditions are always maintained directly within the relevant document.
• In addition, you can do the following via the master data menu

- Define the market price for a material

The Vendor Evaluation component uses this figure to compute a vendor’s price level.

- Maintain condition records for condition types you have created yourself

- Change the prices in info records, contracts, or scheduling agreements on a collective basis

How conditions are maintained depends on whether they are time-dependent or time-independent.

The following table shows which conditions can be maintained for which documents.

	Time-dependent conditions	Time-independent conditions
Info record	Yes	No
Quotation	Depends on document type	Depends on document type
Scheduling agreement	Depends on document type	Depends on document type
Contract	Yes	No
Purchase order	No	Yes

You can specify both time-dependent and time-independent conditions at header and item level. The conditions in the info record are an exception: these are stored at info record level.

In the case of time-dependent conditions, you can additionally enter:

• Supplementary conditions
• Validity periods
• Scales
• Upper and lower limits

• Configurable Materials in SAP Purchasing
• Archiving SAP Purchase Orders
• Monitoring SAP Purchase Orders
• Blocking a SAP Purchase Order
• Cancelling a SAP Purchase Order
• Changing a SAP Purchase Order