| | Purchase ContractsPurchase contracts are used to register agreements with
a buy-from business partner for the delivery of specific goods. These agreements can be registered at the following
levels: Purchase contract lines In contract lines, the agreements with a business partner about
the delivery of a particular item or group of items for a specified period of
time are registered. These agreements are focused on total quantities, prices,
and discounts. You can specify an effective period and
indicate whether the minimum quantity to purchase is binding. Terms and conditions agreements In terms and conditions agreements, detailed terms and
conditions regarding orders, planning, logistics, invoicing, and demand pegging
regarding the sale, purchase, or transfer of goods, are registered. A purchase
terms and conditions agreement must be linked to a normal purchase contract
before you can use it.
Contract types You can specify these contract types: For each purchase business partner, you can close multiple
special contracts in one period. In a specific period, you cannot specify more
than one normal contract per item or price group for a buy-from business
partner. Purchase contracts are used as the basis of purchase orders or
purchase schedules. The data specified in the purchase contract serves as a
parent of the data that you specify in the linked purchase order or purchase
schedule. When creating planned purchase orders or purchase schedules from Enterprise Planning, during
the supplier selection process, purchase business partners are searched for who
can supply the required item. Based on the priority search levels specified on
the Buy-from BP Search for Purchase Schedules and Buy-from BP Search Orders tabs of the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session, purchase contracts can be used to
search for these purchase business partners. If valid business partners are
found, they are sent to and selected by Enterprise Planning. Corporate purchase contracts are used by multisite
companies to negotiate contractual agreements with a buy-from business partner,
after which price agreements are centrally specified (by purchase contract
line), and logistic agreements are decentrally specified (by purchase contract
line detail). Corporate purchase contracts allow you to make keen price
agreements on a corporate level and to use these prices on site level. How purchase contracts are retrieved depends on whether the
contract must be linked to a purchase order or a purchase schedule. If you specify a contract and you know the time-phased delivery
details, you can create a delivery contract instead of
a purchase schedule. A delivery contract is not a real schedule, but a schedule
solution to generate purchase orders on time. You can copy existing purchase contracts to create purchase
contracts. If a purchase contract is used for a purchase order or a
purchase schedule, you can evaluate the purchase contract during and after the
purchase order or schedule procedure. During the contract's effectivity period,
you can check if the deliveries take place as agreed in the contract. At the
end of the contract's effectivity period, you can check if the agreed
quantities were met. You can use several additional processes in the purchase
contract procedure, such as activating or deactivating a range of purchase
contracts, printing purchase contract acknowledgements, copying quotations to
purchase contracts, creating RFQs from purchase contracts, printing termination
letters, terminating, and deleting purchase contracts.
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