Purchase Contracts Overview (tdpur3500m500)

	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. Related topics Purchase contracts 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. Buy-from BP The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner. 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 The first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The effective date often includes the effective time. Expiry Date The last date on which a record or a setting is valid. The expiry date often includes the expiry time.