Contract 360 (tpctm1300m000)

Use this session to perform contract related tasks and to retrieve contract-related data. You can view and maintain contract information such as the contract type, the invoice type, and the contract amount.

How to use the Contract 360 (tpctm1300m000) session?

Select a contract from the Contract list. The contract details such as the contract amount, budget amount and so on are displayed in the fields at the top of the session.

To view the contract details, double-click the contract line in the list.

The check marks under the Sales, Invoicing, Pricing, Execution and Miscellaneous group boxes indicate which data is available for the selected contract. If you click a link, a session starts which you can use to view, maintain, or create the contract data.

You can click the following buttons, or click the corresponding commands in the appropriate menu:

 

Employee
Employee
If this check box is selected, the Contract Manager field is enabled.
Contract Manager
The employee code of the contract manager.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Totals
Currency
The currency used to express the total amounts for the contract.
Contract Amount
The total contract amount for the contract.
Budget Amount
The total budget amount for the contract.
Actual Cost Amount to Date
The total actual costs incurred for the contract.
Estimated Cost to Complete
The total cost estimated for a contract.
Invoiced to Date
The total amount invoiced till date for a contract.
Margins
Currency
The currency used to express the margin amounts for a contract.
Original Margin
The actual amount that the net sales price is allowed to deviate from the target price.
Margin Forecast
The forecasted amount that the net sales price is allowed to deviate from the target price.
Sales
Contract Lines
If this check box is selected, contract line data is available for the contract.
Deliverables
If this check box is selected, deliverables have been created for the contract.
Bank Guarantee
If this check box is selected, bank guarantee data is available for the contract.
Pricing
Labor Rates
If this check box is selected, the labor rates are defined for the contract.
Sundry Costs
If this check box is selected, the sundry costs are defined for the contract.
Invoicing
Advance Payments
If this check box is selected, advance payments have been requested for the contract.
Installments
If this check box is selected, installments have been created for the contract.
Cost Transactions
If this check box is selected, cost plus transactions lines have been created for the contract.
Invoices
If this check box is selected, invoice data is available for the contract.
Holdback
If this check box is selected, holdback percentage is defined for the contract.
Execution
Projects
If this check box is selected, the contract is linked to a project.
Shipments
If this check box is selected, shipment data is available for the contract deliverables.
Shipment Acceptance
If this check box is selected, shipment acceptance data is available for the contract.
Results
Costs
If this check box is selected, cost history data is available for the contract.
Revenues
If this check box is selected, revenue history data is available for the contract.
Miscellaneous
History
If this check box is selected, history data is available for the contract.
Contract
The code that uniquely identifies the contract.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Sales Office
The sales office of the sold-to business partner.
Status
Note
  • The Contract must be Active before a contract line is set to Active.
  • If the contract header is Canceled, all levels are Canceled.
Text
If this check box is selected, a text is present.
Search Key
First Reference
The reference text printed on invoices, for example, the name of a contact person or a customer reference number.
Second Reference
The reference text printed on invoices, for example, the name of a contact person or a customer reference number.
Contract Execution
The contract type indicates whether your company executes the project as main contractor or as a subcontractor.

Allowed values

Contract Execution.

Contract Award Date
The date when the contract is awarded.
Effective Date
The date when the validity period of the contract starts.
Expiry Date
The date when the validity period of the contract ends.
Advance Payment Requests
The method used to determine whether advance payment request is applied on the contract or contract line.
Liquidation % Advances
The liquidation percentage calculated to settle the invoices against the advances for the contract line.

Note

  • This field is enabled only if the Advance Payment Requests field is set to By Contract Line.
  • Only the liquidation percentage * invoice amount is used to settle an advance payment request.
  • The full invoice amount is used to settle the advance if no liquidation % is specified.

Example: For an advance payment request for 2000 EUR , a percentage of 75% is defined on the contract line. If a delivery based invoice of 1000 EUR is sent to the customer, an amount of 750 EUR can be paid to settle the advance and the customer is invoiced for 250 EUR. If no percentage is set the maximum amount possible is settled.

Installment Type
The installment type for the project.

Allowed values

Installment Type.

Number of Points
The total number of points that you can distribute to the installments of the contract.

Example

Contract amount by customerEUR 600,000
Number of points300
Installment 1100 pointsEUR 200,000
Installment 275 pointsEUR 150,000
Installment 375 pointsEUR 150,000
Installment 450 pointsEUR 100,000
--EUR 600,000

 

Note This field is enabled only if the Installment Type field is set to Points.

Liquidation % Installments
The liquidation percentage calculated on the installments for the contract.
Note

The liquidation percentage can be calculated for the installments only if the Contract Type field is set to Fixed Price.

Project Text on Invoice
If this check box is selected, LN prints project related text on invoices.
Holdback
The method used to determine how holdback is applied for the contract.

Allowed values

Holdback.

Holdback Percentage
The holdback amount expressed as a percentage. You can define the holdback percentage only if the Holdback field is set to All Invoices or Based on Progress.
Progress Threshold
The progress threshold percentage for the contract. You can define the threshold percentage only if the Holdback field is set to All Invoices or Based on Progress.
Invoice Type
The way to calculate invoices for a given contract type. The method determines when to issue invoices to the sold-to business partner.

Allowed values

Invoice Type.

Invoice Discount
The percentage calculated as a discount on the invoice amount of the contract.
Rate Determiner
The date used to determine the exchange rate.

Allowed values

Rate determiner.

Rate
The exchange rate for the contract.
Rate Factor
The rate factor for the contract.
Bank Account
The bank account number.

The bank account is identified by a number of the business partner with the bank indicated by the bank account code. It is displayed based on the bank account code.

International Bank Account Number
The international bank account number for the contract.
Acceptance Point
The acceptance point .

Allowed values

Acceptance Point.

Creation Date
The date when the contract is created.

 

Deliverables
Starts the Contract Deliverables (tppdm7100m100) session. Use this session to create and maintain contract deliverables.
Bank Guarantees
Starts the Bank Guarantees (tpctm0120m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain the bank guarantee data for a contract.
Labor Rates

Use this session to enter, for each labor rate:

  • The cost rate and the cost rate currency.
  • The sales rate and the sales rate currency.
Sundry Costs
Starts the Contract Price Sundry Costs (tpctm0140m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain sundry cost data for the contract.
Advance Payments
Starts the Advance Payment Requests (tppin4110m000) session. Use this session to maintain advance payment requests. The customer pays advance amounts before the project starts. You can settle the advance amount against the next invoice or installment.
Installments
Starts the Installments (tppin4151m000) Installments (tppin4151m000) session. Use this session to list details of the installment for the selected project.
Cost Transactions
Starts the Cost Transactions (tpppc2100m000) session. Use this session to view the cost plus transactions that you can release for invoicing. You can maintain a transaction in the details session.
Billable Costs
Starts the Cost-Plus Transactions to be Invoiced (tppin2100m000) session. Use this session to view the cost plus transactions that you can release for invoicing. You can maintain a transaction in the details session.
Projects
Starts the Projects 360 (tppdm6500m100) session. Use this session to perform project related tasks and to retrieve project-related data. You can view and maintain project information such as the contract type, the invoice type, and the contract amount.
Warehouse Orders
Starts the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain warehousing orders by order origin.
Shipments
Starts the Project Shipments (tppin0160m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain shipments. You can also use this session to confirm shipments.
Costs
Starts the Cost Transactions (tpppc2100m000) session.
Revenues

Use this session to list a history of revenues. This includes invoice data and posting data.

The following fields identify an invoice number:

  • Delivering company
  • Financial document number
  • Financial transaction type
Responsibilities
Starts the Responsibilities (tppdm0133m000) session. Use this session to maintain details of the responsibilities that can be assigned to employees. Note: If you have started this session by zooming, you can only find and select a record.
History
Starts the Contract History (tpctm1102m000) session. Use this session to view the history data for a contract.

You can view the contract history data only if the Log History checkbox in the Contract Parameters (tpctm0100m000) session is selected.

Contract Lines
Starts the Contract Lines (tpctm1110m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain contract line data.
Contract Lines
Starts the Contract Lines (tpctm1110m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain contract line data.
Deliverables
Starts the Contract Deliverables (tppdm7100m100) session. Use this session to create and maintain contract deliverables.
Bank Guarantees
Starts the Bank Guarantees (tpctm0120m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain the bank guarantee data for a contract.
Labor Rates

Use this session to enter, for each labor rate:

  • The cost rate and the cost rate currency.
  • The sales rate and the sales rate currency.
Sundry Costs
Starts the Contract Price Sundry Costs (tpctm0140m000) session. Use this session to create and maintain sundry cost data for the contract.
Advance Payments
Starts the Advance Payment Requests (tppin4110m000) session. Use this session to maintain advance payment requests. The customer pays advance amounts before the project starts. You can settle the advance amount against the next invoice or installment.
Installments
Starts the Installments (tppin4151m000) Installments (tppin4151m000) session. Use this session to list details of the installment for the selected project.
Cost Transactions
Starts the Cost Transactions (tpppc2100m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain the cost transactions of all cost types for projects. Only those transactions that add costs to the project are displayed.
Billable Costs
Starts the Contract Billable Cost Lines (tppin1100m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain the billable cost lines for a contract. Billable cost lines are based on the detailed cost plus transactions aggregated via Create Aggregated Billable Cost (tppin1200m000) considering the aggregation levels set at the invoicing method defined on the contract line.
Projects
Starts the Projects 360 (tppdm6500m100) session. Use this session to perform project related tasks and to retrieve project-related data. You can view and maintain project information such as the contract type, the invoice type, and the contract amount.
Warehouse Orders
Starts the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain warehousing orders by order origin.
Shipments
Starts the Project Shipments (tppin0160m000) session. Use this session to view and maintain shipments. You can also use this session to confirm shipments.
Shipment Acceptance
Starts the Shipment Acceptance (whinh4130m200) session. Use this session to view the shipment lines that are using either source acceptance, destination acceptance or both.
Costs
Starts the Cost Transactions (tpppc2100m000) session.
Revenues

Use this session to list a history of revenues. This includes invoice data and posting data.

The following fields identify an invoice number:

  • Delivering company
  • Financial document number
  • Financial transaction type
Responsibilities
Starts the Responsibilities (tppdm0133m000) session. Use this session to maintain details of the responsibilities that can be assigned to employees. Note: If you have started this session by zooming, you can only find and select a record.
History
Starts the Contract History (tpctm1102m000) session. Use this session to view the history data for a contract.

You can view the contract history data only if the Log History checkbox in the Contract Parameters (tpctm0100m000) session is selected.

Copy Contract
Starts the Copy Contract (tpctm1200m000) session. Use this session to copy the contract data into a new contract.
Invoices
Starts the Invoicing 360 (cisli3600m000) session.

Use this session to:

  • Display summarized invoicing information.
  • Retrieve detailed invoicing information.