Purchase Contracts Overview (tdpur3500m500)

Use this session to view purchase contracts by contract number.

Note

If you double-click a record in the Purchase Contracts (tdpur3100m000) session, you can view more details of a purchase contract.

On the appropriate menu, you can choose Purchase Contract Lines Overview to start the Purchase Contract Lines Overview (tdpur3501m500) session. In this session, you can view purchase contract lines.

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Contract

The number of the purchase contract.

Description

The contract description is used to sort or retrieve contracts. It is essential to fill this field in a systematic way as this will enable you to search for contracts by description.

Buyer

The employee of your company who is the contact to the concerned buy-from business partner. The buyer is also known as the purchasing agent.

Default value

LN retrieves the default buyer from the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) session.

Contract Type

The contract type indicates if the purchase contract is a normal contract or a special contract.

Contract Status

The purchase contract's status.

A purchase contract can have one of the following statuses:

  • Free
    When a contract is created, the contract status is automatically set to Free. If a contract has the Free status, you can make changes to the contract.
  • Active
    You can link a purchase order/schedule/quotation to a contract with the Active status. If the status is Active and the Maintaining Contracts Always Allowed check box in the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session is cleared, you cannot deactivate the contract.
  • Terminated
    After a contract is terminated, the contract can no longer be used.
Contract Date

Initially, this is the date on which the contract is specified, but this date can be manually changed to a date in the past or future.

Default value

The current (creation) date.

Effective Date

effective date

Expiry Date

expiry date