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:
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 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. Contracts in a multisite structure Corporate purchase contracts In a multicompany structure, you can also specify a corporate purchase contract. Such a contract is used to centrally specify price agreements (by purchase contract line), and to decentrally specify logistic agreements (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. You can use corporate purchase contracts only for push schedules. Note Corporate purchase contracts are not specified on contract header level, but on line level. Therefore, a purchase contract can include both lines of the Total type and lines of the Contract Line type. Total lines have linked contract line details, which can apply only to corporate purchase contracts. Contract lines apply to regular purchase contracts. Central contracts In a multicompany structure, you can define a central contract that can be used by various purchase offices from different logistic companies. The following are applicable to these contracts:
Note Before you can use central contracts, the companies must share the contract tables by means of logical table linking or by replication. If you share the contract lines table, the Use Corporate Purchase Contracts check box in the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session must have the same value for all companies. For more information, refer to:
Specifying purchase contracts For more information, refer to Specifying purchase contracts. Retrieving purchase contracts For more information, refer to Retrieving purchase contracts. Purchase contract additional processes A number of processes do not always occur in the purchase contract procedure, but can be applicable in specific situations. You can:
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