Specifying purchase contracts

Step 1. Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000)

Use the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session to specify the general data for a purchase contract header. The information to be defined is mainly related to the purchase business partner to whom the contract relates. On the contract header, you can also link a terms and conditions agreement.

Step 2. Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000)

Use the Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000) session to specify purchase contract lines, which include the agreements with a purchase business partner about a certain item during a period of time.

Step 3. Purchase Contract Price Revisions (tdpur3103m000)

Use the Purchase Contract Prices (tdpur3103m000) session to record prices and discounts for the purchase contract line in a purchase contract price revision.

However, If the contract line item is a configurable item, and the Option Based Pricing check box is selected in the Purchase Contract Lines (tdpur3101m000) session, item prices are retrieved from the generic price list in Manufacturing and not from the Purchase Contract Price Revisions (tdpur3103m000) session.

If no valid price and discount can be retrieved from the purchase contract, LN will continue searching for a price and discounts in other sources.

Step 4. Purchase Contract Line Logistic Data (tdpur3102m000)

Use the Purchase Contract Line Logistic Data (tdpur3102m000) session if you want purchase schedules with external business partners to be linked to the contract line. If you only use purchase schedules with internal business partners, you need not define a contract. Therefore, the Purchase Contract Line Logistic Data (tdpur3102m000) session is not a mandatory session in the purchase contract procedure.

The purchase contract line logistic data provides default values to the purchase schedule that is linked to the purchase contract line. If you do not specify logistic data, you cannot create a purchase schedule for an external business partner.

Step 5. Delivery Contract (tdpur3104m000)

If you define a contract and you already know the time-phased delivery details, in the Delivery Contract (tdpur3104m000) session, 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 in time.