Purchase Contracts Overview (tdpur3500m500)
Use this session to view purchase contracts by contract number.
On the appropriate menu, you can choose to start the Purchase Contract Lines Overview (tdpur3501m500) session. In this session, you can view purchase contract lines.
Field Information
- Contract
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The number of the purchase contract.
- Description
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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
- Buyer
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Default value
LN retrieves the default buyer from the Buy-from Business Partner (tccom4120s000) session.
- Contract Type
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The contract type indicates if the purchase contract is a normal contract or a special contract.
- Contract Status
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The purchase contract's status.
A purchase contract can have one of the following statuses:
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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.
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- 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 is the current (creation) date.
- Effective Date
- Expiry Date