Overview of purchase contract handlingPurchase contracts are used to register agreements with a buy-from business partner for the delivery of specific goods. The agreements can be registered at these 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 tab in the Purchase Schedule Parameters (tdpur0100m500) session and on the Buy-from BP Search Orders tab in the Purchase Order Parameters (tdpur0100m400) 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 multicompany structure In a multicompany structure, you can specify central contracts and corporate purchase contracts. For more information, refer to Purchase contracts in a multicompany structure. Specifying purchase contracts Before you can specify purchase contracts:
For more information, refer to Specifying purchase contracts. Retrieving purchase contracts For more information, refer to Retrieving purchase contracts. Additional processes A number of processes do not always occur in the purchase contract procedure, but can be applicable in specific situations. For more information, refer to Purchase contracts - additional processes.
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