Customer item code for sales contracts

In a typical automotive business scenario, a contract is negotiated before releases are sent to the supplier and before the supplier initiates the shipment of goods. The identifying parts of a contract, which make a contract unique, are the sold-to-business partner, the ship-to-business partner, the effective period, the LN item code, and the customer order number.

Previously, if multiple customer item codes were used for the same LN item code and the other key fields remained unchanged, a contract could not be set up in LN.

In Automotive Exchange, the customer item code is already used as a discriminator to identify sales contract lines. In Infor LN, this attribute is now also considered for contract identification.