The intercompany trade order sales and purchase workbenches

The Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) and Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) sessions help the user to efficiently process intercompany trade orders.

Various options are available to select and handle the intercompany trade orders that require immediate action, or to provide overviews of the user's workload for the near or more distant future. The intercompany trade order and transaction line data is displayed in a graph and in the lines sections of these sessions.

The workbench sessions display intercompany trade orders that require processing. Intercompany trade orders with status Closed are not displayed.

Both sessions are almost identical, but the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session is used to present the data from the selling organization's perspective, whereas the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session outlines the buying organization's perspective.

Header and lines sections

The header sections of the intercompany trade order sales and purchase workbench sessions include the General, Additional, and Graph Settings tabs.

The General and Additional tabs include a graph and various filters. The filters are used to select the intercompany trade orders and related transaction lines to be displayed in the lines sections and the graph. The lines sections include the Orders and Transaction Lines tabs.

In the graph, the intercompany trade orders that meet the filter settings are displayed.

The Graph Settings tab is used to specify the preferred time periods, currency, units and so on for the graph.

Filters

In the General tab, these filters are available to select the intercompany trade orders and related transaction lines to be displayed in the graph and the lines sections:

  • Financial Entity

    The enterprise unit and financial company of the:

    • Seller in the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session.
    • Buyer in the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session
  • Intercompany Customer
    The enterprise unit and financial company of the internal customer in the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session
  • Intercompany Supplier
    The enterprise unit and financial company of the internal supplier in the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session
  • Orders
    The order status. For open orders, specific filters for orders requiring seller or buyer approval are available.
  • Planned Delivery Date
    Filters for planned delivery dates past due, due today, and due in the future.
  • Transaction Lines

    Transaction line status of the transaction lines related to the intercompany trade orders that match the filter settings. You can also select invoiced or posted transaction lines.

    In the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session, filters for transaction lines for which invoicing is in process are available.

    In the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session, additional filters are available for transaction lines that are received:

    • But not invoiced by sales.
    • And for which a sales invoice is present, but not invoiced by purchasing.
Note

Transaction lines are not present for intercompany trade orders with status Open or Ready for Process.

In the Additional tab, these filters are available to narrow down the selections made in the General tab:

  • Scenario
    The intercompany trade scenario of the intercompany trade orders
  • Specific Selection
    Extra criteria to select specific intercompany trade orders.
Graph

The estimated and realized cost of goods sold (COGS), revenues, profit margin, or the number of intercompany trade orders can be displayed in the graph in the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session.

In the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session, the number of orders or the estimated and realized (actual) amounts can be displayed. The estimated amount is based on the intercompany trade orders and the realized amounts are based on the transaction lines.

In both workbench sessions, the data is displayed based on the period setting in the Graph Settings group box, in which you can specify the currency, number of periods, period type, and the first period.

Line section tabs in the Intercompany Trade Sales Workbench (tcitr3600m400) session
Line section tabs in the Intercompany Trade Purchase Workbench (tcitr3600m500) session

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