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Value Contract
A value contract is very similar to a quantity contract – except that instead of a fixed quantity, the value of the contract is fixed ( ie the dollar amount of the contract is fixed ) while the materials that the customers procure could come from either a fixed basket of materials or a single material only.
For example, in the example shown above, the type of contract is a value contract for a specific material – ‘WK2′. Essentially, this contract is limiting the value of the contract to a fixed dollar value and the customer can release multiple release-orders referring to the value contract for that specific material. If the customer wants to create contracts for specific value and not limit them to a particular material, then an assortment module can be used. The type of value contract that refers to an assortment module is ‘WK1′.
An assortment module is a basket of materials ( a fixed set of materials ) without any specific quantities or prices. When some of the materials in the assortment module needs to be used in the value contract, the assortment module is searched for ( by name or number ) and the materials in the assortment module are selected and quantities specified. Price can be either manually specified or automatically done. We will discuss more on this during the configuration section.
Configuration
The configuration path for Contracts specifically ( other than document types ) is [ SPRO -> IMG -> Sales and Distribution -> Sales -> Sales Documents -> Contracts ]
The configuration for master contracts is shown below. The child contracts ( contracts that refer the master contracts ) are called referencing sales documents. We have to first define the contract document types that can reference a particular master contract document. The standard master contract document type in the IDES system is GK.
The child contracts that reference the master contracts are bound by the referencing requirements. The referencing requirements are specified in the reference procedure – SDGK. The fields that can be referenced in the lower level contract are specified as technical fields ( Table, Field combination ) along with the copy rule and message. As shown in the picture below, the reference copy rules can be ‘A’ – Check for Agreement, ‘B’ – Always copy or ‘C’ – Copy only if agrees. These copy rules are used to over-ride customer master derived data ( incoterms, payment terms, taxability etc ) by the data in the master contract header. The message flag is used if a warning message should be shown in case data differs. However, this message cannot be changed to error in configuration.
Contract Profile
A contract profile primarily specifies the automatic rules for determining dates ( start date, end date and validity period ) and cancellation procedure. Some of the reasons why they are used could be to automatically populate the dates for some contract types. For example if a particular contract document type always is used for a period of 2 years, then a contract profile with a validity period category of 2 years can be assigned to the document type in Sales document type configuration [VOV8 ]. The validity period for example can be defined as follows.
As shown, the validity period category of ‘Z5′ indicates that he contract profile is valid for 5 Years ( ’4′ is the validity period unit for years ). This finally comes together in the Date determination rules. For example, the date determination rule ’08′ says the contract end date should be computed based on the contract start date ( as opposed to another date, say goods acceptance date or billing date ) + the contract validity period.
Contract Creation DEMO
Transaction Code / Menu Path :
[VA41] or [Sales and Distribution -> Sales -> Contract -> Create ]. Enter the contract type from the drop downs. The typical contract document types in a standard IDES system are
GK – Master Contract
QC – Quantity Contract
QP – Rental Contract
Wk1 – Value Contract
WK2 – Material relevant value contract
SC – Service and Maintenance Contract etc
The start and end dates are either automatically determined ( if there is a contract profile with date determination rules assigned to the contract document type ) or they can be manually entered. For example, in a quantity contract, the target quantity can be entered along with the dates.
Release orders can be created with reference to the contract as follows. You can use ‘OR’ – standard order or you can use any other custom document type created as a copy of OR or otherwise ( however, please be advised that there should be a copy control created between that contract document type and the release order document type ). When creating the release order, click on “Create with Reference” button on the left top corner. A pop-up will open up. Select the Contract tab. Enter the quantity contract number there or search for it. By default the entire consumable quantity in the original contract is copied over to the release order. However, the quantity can be changed in the release order according to the requirements of the user. The quantity referenced will be deemed as ‘Referenced’ in the item’s status of the quantity contract. For example, in this example, there are 2 release orders 12960 and 12961 created with reference to the quantity contract 40000209. The quantity contract is for quantity 100, while the release orders have each released 50 and 25 in quantity. That is the reason why the status of the line item in the quantity contract is in the state “Being Processed”.
However, after the third release order is being processed for another 25 quantity, the item’s status in the contract is set to “Completed”. This is also explained better in Item Category configuration in SAP.
Assortment Module
To create an assortment module goto [Sales and Distribution -> Master Data -> Products -> Value Contract -Assortment Module ] OR [WSV2]
You will have to give a name ( in this case Module-1 ), enter the materials and validity dates. Now you can use the assortment value in the value contract by entering the assortment module in the contract. To release the contract however, you will have to select the materials from the value contract. The way you do it is as follows. As usual create the release order with reference to the contract, and during the process of selecting the items in the pop-up, select the line item and click on “Expand Assortment”
and select the materials and quantities. Depending on the quantities selected, the order will be priced. You can do the same using material specific contracts as well – Just that you do not need an assortment module to do the same.
Service and Maintenance Contract
Service and maintenance contracts typically follow a billing plan that is typically periodic. For example, if you choose the material REPAIR_SERVICE in an ides system in sales area ( 1000,14,00 ), enter the line item and click on billing plan button.
you can see the billing broken down by period – In this case month – in the billing plan tab of the line item.
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